Website Review of: Michael Aulia’s Tech Blog
Getting To Know the website.
What is the purpose of this website?
Tech news, personal reviews, and a geek to geek’s ramblings.
Who is the owner of the website?
Michael Reza Aulia, a full time software researched and development manager at an IT company located in Melbourne, Australia.
Michael is currently an active member of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. He plays the bass, and is involved in other ministries in the area.
Michael considers himself a geek, and enjoys playing games, loves everything about computers, and technology.
Recent Blog Posts
PC Games: Frontlines: Fuel of War Review/Impression - A great review of Michael’s personal experiences with the Frontlines fps (first person shooter) game. I have never played the game myself, however I would have to side with Michael on the issue of splash damage in the game. As an experienced fps player myself, I can vouch that, the usual tactic with a rocket gun, is to shoot near the enemy’s feet. Strange, that the game does not account for splash damage as heavily.
On a business note, I would say to Michael, to add an affiliate link for others to purchase the game.
The answer for “Guess the right girl”… - Wow, out of all the initial 8 choices, its so hard to distinguish who is a boy and who is the one and only girl. You might as well just pick any random one, lol.
Free Lapbooks for Sunday School Teachers - Good post, and I am sure this one has likely received alot of search traffic. Doing a search on Google for, ‘Free lapbooks for teachers’ yields Michael’s website at number 6. And doing a search for ‘Free Lapbooks for Sunday School teachers’, yields a position of #2. So this post likely is receiving alot of other nice searches as well.
A good free tool for your Windows housekeeping - Great post, and explanations of how Glary Utilities can be a helpful tool to maintain your windows running smoothly.
Don’t like WordPress “Fresh” administration theme? Try Fluency - Useful post, although one problem is the image blew the first paragraph. The image has been resized, and you can’t click on it. If you know what you are doing, then you can just right click on it, and view the image in its original size. However, I am sure not alot of people know that you can do that. One suggestion, I would say is, instead to resize the original picture, and have it as a thumbnail link to the original image.
Final Thoughts on Getting to know the website
Great content, keep up the good work!
Theme / Design Critique
Header
Fantastic! I love it!
Sidebar
Overall the side bar is laid out very well. However I do have some suggestions for Michael.
I would recommend to Michael to change the layout of the adsense code. To do a test. Instead of the 160×600 pixel Wide Skyscraper adsense unit. Try the Medium Rectangle or Large Rectangle above the categories. In all of my websites, the rectangle has performed the best. Keep the same colors as is though.
The other adsense placement is, to place another of the same 160×600 wide Skyscraper below the first one.
Other than the adsense placement, there are no other recommendations I can give to enhancing your sidebar. Your sidebar is really well built.
Final Thoughts On Theme Design
Out of all the reviews that I’ve done, I must say this one of the best themes overall. Everything threw out the theme is really clean, blended and well presented.
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Thanks for the review and suggestions, all of them are really helpful and give me some insights!
I’m trying to find out if I can ask someone to design my own theme as the one I use is like everywhere on the blogosphere lol
What a wonderfully comprehensive review. I found your comments about adsense interesting. Great job!
If only we can have more than 3 AdSense ads on a page
I like the design of the website. It give me a well feeling, and the ads are place at the right place.
nice theme i like clean sites i hate sites thats are all clutter
What a great review!
A great blog by a great guy!!!