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Daily Fashion and Beauty Tip Blog – Review

chrissie — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:24:51 +0000

Bloggeries is going to look at another fashion blog. This blog is called the Daily Fashion and/or beauty tip blog and is a blog that is full of the beaty and fashion tips that your mother may or may not have told you. The blogger is Cluny Grey, a former instructor of college English and Humanities who also happens to be a jewelry designer. Cluny recommends that you visit the blog every day to get information to match whatever your current look is. Every fashionista can get a taste for what sort of fashion love she offers through any of her recent bloggeries: Lips are In!, Uh oh, Fashion Faux Pas on the Celebrity Scene, Dressing Slim: The Tops that Work, It’s After Labor Day!, Shoes for Fall: The Do’s and Don’ts, Get Ready for Fall!!, Discontinued Products, Wrinkles? A Temporary Fix, Just Say No! Good, good, Water, and Beauty Food.

The site is lacking a little in content, and while this is never good for a blog, for the moment it is helping with its navigation. Bloggeries are left marginalized and are black text on white background and there is a right sided navigation bar. In the navigation bar, you will find an about page, AdSense, Blog Widgets, more AdSense, Previous Posts Menu, Archives Menu going back to January 2006, and some Shopping links. There are labels attached to posts but there are currently no categories menus. Labels are what you would expect for a fashion blog and are keyword friendly for the search engines: Beauty, Beauty Tips, Fall Clothes, Fall Fashion Trends, Fashion, Shopping, and so on. Each bloggery is accompanied by at least one relevant picture, and in most cases more which makes the blog a little easier to read, and definitely more interesting for the topic. The blog also has a steady readership at the time of the last posting, which was in October, so the keyword labels are obviously working very well for it.

I am going with 2.4 for this one however, and this is almost entirely due to its lack of content and activity. The blog has not been updated since October, and this is making the blog look very sparse. Even when it was being updated regularly, the blog was not nearly offering a daily fashion tip as its title suggests, so the blog credibility for the readership more than likely suffered. I also think the appearance scores of the blog is hurt a little by the excessive advertising found in the navigation bar. To tone these down and compliment the graphics with the theme of the blog would more than likely serve the blogger much better. I also might suggest that the Recent Posts Menu be moved a little higher so that readers can see it as one of the first items of the blog, and this may attract a stronger readership. Otherwise, the uniqueness of the blog works well with the strong personal voice of the blogger, so with a few tweaks and some more regular blogging, this blog could do very well.

- Chrissie

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Best Celeb Gossip – Webs Best Celebrity Gossip Site – Bloggeries Review

chrissie — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:55:38 +0000

If you are a celebrity gossip fan, this site is going to satisfy your appetite with a huge celebrity dish. To discover the latest and greatest on just about any celebrity, stop into Best Celeb Gossip: The Web’s BEST Celebrity Gossip Site to have a sip of “Celebrity Juice, Freshly Squeezed”. This site is co-authored by “two Gucci loving girls” in their 20’s who “take life seriously” which entails detailed involvement reading US Weekly, Star, People, and watching the latest episodes of their favorite reality television shows – America’s Next Top Model, The Pussycat Dolls, and The Hills. They don’t just read magazines and watch TV though, these girls are some serious celebrity scouts and their website is proof of that. When they don’t have time to fill your Celebrity Juice glass, they rely on their ghostwriter, little Bailey who has to be the cutest doe-eyed Chihuahua I have seen yet.

Recent posts offer up to the minute information on “Nick Lachey and Vanessa @ Derby Gala!!”, “Guess Who’s Hair is blowing in their face” a post where you have to guess the hidden celebrity, “Brad and Angelina split up” (one I am myself still curious about), “Shrek the Third LA Premiere”, “Paris Hilton…in the CLINK”, and “Justin Timberlake and Paris Hilton Duet” just to name a few of the eye-catchers you will see upon opening the site. The site also comes with the disclaimer that nothing there is fact, and at best, is gossip, rumor, and speculation. It should also come with a second disclaimer that “reader’s discretion is advised” due to the nature of hollywood lifestyles; especially when quoting some celebrities.

Navigation on this site is extremely straightforward. The posts run down the center of the opening page and there are both a left sided and right sided navigation bars. On the left read about the girls, have a look at the cute little Bailey, and then you can follow a link of any celebrity information you can think of. If there has been a name mentioned on any site, show, magazine, or news piece in the last year, that name is included in this list. There is a different flavor of juice for every fan’s glass here. On the right sided bar, you can grab a quick link for any of the recent posts, subscribe to the feeds, and use a Google Search bar. There is also some contact information here for both of the owners.

This site is starting off very well considering it has only been around since March of this year. Because of this I am going to give it a 4.2 because it has yet to prove itself over the long run. Can Heidi and Niki keep up this pace of posting? I’d also like to suggest a few changes while they are working on getting themselves off the ground. For appearance and content the blog scores extremely well, you almost can’t tell it is even a blog. The writing is very creative and very well written which lends to some good uniquene points and original content. The updates are outstanding as well. The site was updated twice in the process of my review. This may be leading to some of the clogging on the site as some days have as many as 3 and 4 entries. I would suggest limiting some of these to 1, 2 or 3 and spreading out the not so important posts so that there is a steady daily flow. Some glitches on site are that currently neither of the subscription or feeds links are working, and the google bar needs some re-formatting. This is distracting from the professional appeal of the site. The AdSense is incorporated well however, so well in fact that I had to look for it!! That’s a first! I would suggest a few more AdSense bars formatted just as similarly if the girls are hoping to monetize the site. The site is young which explains the lack of readership and lack of comments, however starting off early with a review may be just what they need to get some subscriptions going. With these few simple changes, I think this site could well become a favorite drink of celebrity fans worldwide. It is starting off very well already for its youthfulness and doesn’t seem to be slowing down in the slightest!

-Chrissie

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Whudahexup Celebrity Gossip – Blog Review

chrissie — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:15:21 +0000

Bloggeries brings you another review: Whudahexup. This blog may as well also be known as Entertainment Central for those that like to dish about celebrities. This spot does precisely what it aims to, and that is to inform any and everyone about the lives and loves of the entertainment world. Here you will find the latest and greatest information in releases for music, movies, television, and everything in between. To add to this you will also find out information you may not have known about a current celebrity. Who’s been arrested? Whose Beamer just got the tow? And who has the cutest baby? If you need to know everything about celebrity life, this Blog is an excellent source for you. The news is so current that between two views of it in a single day new posts had been added.

Open up the Blog and the first thing you can do is join in on celebrating Beyonce’s birthday. As you scroll down you can see the nominees for the Snarky Awards, honoring the best and worst in current Hollywood drama. Everything from best and worst album to best and worst social networking site and anything you can think of to entertain you in between is up for an award. Pick a name, any name that you know is a current celebrity and you will them somewhere on the list of nominees. You will also notice that some celebrities appear in both the best and worst categories. Gwen Stefani for example appears as a nominee in both the best and worst artist category. Not that she has any issues with self-esteem, but I hope she doesn’t win both.

Navigate through the site and you will find weekly updates on all the latest releases. The site updates Global Singles Chart and Global Albums Chart on a weekly basis, and also publishes the most current US box office results. There is a lot of really useful information here if you are looking for celebrity news, but in some cases you will really have to look for it as there are some layout issues on the opening page. The site scrolls through slowly, and the opening layout is a little hard to get through. You have to scroll down several pages worth to get through one post, and the site runs slowly. The Snarky Awards take up a lot of room and are limited to one portion of the page, leaving a wide portion of the screen completely blank. This space could be utilized a little more effectively by moving the layout around a little bit. If you want to look at archived posts or move to specific celebrity categories, you are going to be scrolling for a while to get to the opposite side of the page. I’m talking they are at the bottom left of the page. If anything the categories should be readily accessible as more people would be interested in that then the “Blog Roll” or Miscellaneous links.

Overall though, this blog serves its purpose and that is fill your ear on all that is celebrity. Its information is extremely current and is written very well. It has an average appearance which is fine as its purpose does not require too much splash. For content, uniqueness, and activity on the site it scores above average, but its navigation issues are impeding its effectiveness. For that its overall score comes in at a 3.4. Once the layout issues and navigation effects are in place however, it will be a very entertaining entertainment center. For any successfull blog the content and writing style are what is most important. This blog scores very well in that regard. If they make the template more user friendly or change it all together this blog’s usefulness would increase signifigantly. Good luck!

- Chrissie

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