Website Review of: Nothing Of Particular Interest
Getting To Know the website.
What is the purpose of this website?
No real purpose, other than to be a random blog.
Who is the owner of the website?
I searched the website, but I was unable to discover who is the man or women behind this blog. Although I am willing to bet it is a man behind the scenes of the blog. The only sure thing I can say is that the owner of the website is from, Alamosa, CO.
However, after looking at the who is, of the website, I was able to find that the registrant is Kyle Baker, from Alamosa, CO. So in fact the man behind the blog is Kyle Baker, and thats as far as we will know.
It would be nice to have an about page on the Nothing Of Particular Interest website.
Recent Blog Posts
Deal Or No Deal Discrimination? - I actually have never seen, Deal or No Deal, so I cannot comment. Whoever it was that sent the letter, should start their own website, by the words of the reader, I think she could perhaps create a blog, and write about controversies, etc.
These are my gifts, children, to you. Take it. - A link to a youtube video, from youtube comedian AndrewBravener, in the video he talks about how to prevent videos from sucking, and what not to do. He outlines some tips of what not to do on your first video submission to youtube.
Site Review: Designer’s Depot - A very honest review of another blog.
Safety First! - Just another link to a youtube video. Although I believe it is falsely titled 
Gum is the epitome of all that is right with the world. - I suppose after reading this post, I finally get what he means by being random, because certainly the post is very random.
Final Thoughts on Getting to know the website
Unfortunately, I cannot relate to this website. Personally, the content is just way too random for me. I would say though that the content is geared towards younger people. As can be seen by the writings in the Gum is the epitome of all that is right with the world. post.
I will say this though, whenever you link to videos, I think it would be good to add some words to it too. These words can be what your thoughts are on the video, perhaps some extra tips that the videos does not provide. Whatever it is, just provide some text along with the videos. Just the video alone is not good enough. Both your readers and the search engines will prefer some more words from you in the video posts. The post to the video is great for your readers, but not so great for the search engines. Otherwise it is likely that the search engines won’t index the page. In the end though, you should be writing to your readers, and not the search engines, so don’t force yourself to write something that is not natural of you. Just try to keep in mind, that adding a few words might not be a bad idea
Theme / Design Critique
Header
The header image is unique, and speaks its own voice.
Archives Page - When I first arrived on the blog, I wanted to see the history of the posts, but the current setup of the archives page is very vague, and usual of all blogs. I really like the way I have my archive page setup, and I think for you it would be great as well. Especially since your blog is very random. Readers can check out the archive page, very easily, and navigate their way around the archived posts easier.
Pictured below are the settings I am using for the archive plugin, in order to get a clean feel for the page, otherwise the default feels way too spammy.
Sidebar
Not too much going on with the side bar. One thing I would like to note though, is that the sidebar should be organized more. By this, I mean the alignments of the content.
The section of the sidebar that I feel needs the organization work on is the Featured Links section. It is just inconsistent. The Text links are nicely centered, however when you add in the images, they are not so nicely aligned. Although this is not a huge problem, it just has an off feeling to it.
Main Content Area
The title of each posts should be linked to the post. By this I mean… when you first land on the home page, the title of the posts, should be linking to the page of the article. Otherwise, the only way to get to that page is by clicking on the ‘leave comment’ link at the bottom of each post.
On another note, the bottom page of the main content area is missing a previous page button. This means that, when I land on the main page of Nothing Of Particular Interest I am limited to reading the 6 posts on the main page, and I cannot read beyond that, unless I access the archives page. If I were a novice user of the blog platform, it would lead me to think that, there is no more content to be read on the website.
Final Thoughts On Theme Design
Although it is kinda of late to change, the way the permalink structure is setup, the current setup is losing valuable seo. Example… let’s take a look at the Deal Or No Deal Discrimination, post. The destination for it is /index.php?itemid=283#nucleus_cf, now if you had a custom permalink structure, that utilized the title of the post to part of the url address, it would look like this /deal-or-no-deal-discrimination.html which for the search engines would be better, and you would stand a higher chance of getting the post indexed higher. You can change your permalink structure at any time, however due so at your own risk.
Overall the theme, design and look of the blog is good, it is clean and easy to read.
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Although I don’t read a lot of sites like this one (I did in college, but not so much these days), I love the header. It’s cute and reminds me of the 80s.
They are 100% correct when they say its nothing of particular interest.
Hey, fantastic page dude, I’m a college student as well. Oh and your layout is pretty sweet.
Best of luck to you,
Richard from http://www.hedgeagainstspeculation.com