As with tradition of the JeanCosta.com blog, Thursday’s is Review Thursdays. If you want me to review your website, then read the post on how you can get a free constructive website review.
Website Review of: Josh’s Unconventional Marketing Blog
Getting To Know the website.
What is the purpose of this website?
Dedicated to the unconventional marketing techniques displayed on and off line. Writings will be unique and full of passion. There are high goals and expectations for this blog and for the ideas being presented. Full participation and interaction is encouraged.
Who is the owner of the website?
Josh Whitford, a graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. He was an employee at a call center in Fargo, ND, however shortly after Christmas 2007 he quit his day job and is now working for himself online.
Recent Blog Posts
Backpacking Breakfast ND 2008 - A video from Josh’s backpacking trip.
Sunday’s Random Rants 3-30 - Just a quick update post on what Josh is doing, and then a link to a youtube video of some April Fool Jokes.
Nothing brings people back like FREE BEER. - A great lesson to be learned about hidden marketing influences.
Hi y’all, Sitehoppin delivers traffic and now 25% OFF - Seemed to be a good post, good effort was put forward towards it.
March stats on the Unconventional Marketing Blog - A good post that outlines the short success that Josh has achieved in a short period of time. In his first official full month of blogging, Josh has achieved a total of 51,489 unique visitors. My only question of curiosity would be, is that number “absolute” unique visitors? And I would definitely want to see perhaps a graph of where the percentage of his visitors are coming from. Whether they are from referrals, search engine traffic etc. The more
Final Thoughts on Getting to know the website
Overall pretty good content, you can tell that Josh keeps true to his words on trying to put out the best effort that he can. I hope he continues on the good content, and continues to improve.
Theme / Design Critique
Header
It is different, and definitely unconventional, fits the theme. One key link that is missing though is a link to an archive page. One would be very useful!
Sidebar
Taking a look at the side bar, there is nothing that screams out to me that shouldn’t be there. Theres is not an overload on the side bar, nor is there too little, it feels right. One thing that bothers me though, is that there is no border protection. A nice border to distinguish the sidebar from the main content, would go really well with the theme.
Final Thoughts On Theme Design
Border up the theme, it feels empty.
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Very nice review!
Great review!