Nox-noctis
2005-11-09 - 9:05 p.m.

Empty Me


Layout-10/25: Layout. Where do I begin? When I first saw the picture of the two angels, I had mixed emotions. The normal picture of the angels is good, but the way it is drawn for your template makes them look all distorted and mean. I was also waiting for a ridiculous thought bubble to float above the left angel's head, making him/her/it say something that probably wasn't as witty as the author thought it was. But, thankfully, the two angels on your template remain silent.
The next thing I noticed was that your links and things about you go waaaaaay down past where your entry stops. With a sidebar having so much information in it, the only way it will look good is if you constantly write entries that are at least as long as (or longer) than your sidebar. What I would do, is take all the stuff crammed on the side, such as "girl", "loves", "hates", and "username", and make a page called "extras" and put everything on there. People will be more likely to read those things if you make an actual page for them instead of cramming them on the side.
One thing I do like about this template is that it is simple, black-and-white. I don't have crazy seizure-inducing colors jumping out at me, I'm not distracted by 50 moving gif's, or a constantly playing midi in the background (those are the worst), it's just simple, black-and-white, bam! There's the entry.
One more little nitpicky thing, I couldn't figure out why your scrollbar was a grey color....it didn't fit in with your template anywhere, and just kind of stuck out to me.

Content-10/50: I noticed that you start this entry (and so far every other one I've looked at) with Dear D. Which made me stop and wonder for a few minutes, "Who is this mysterious D that she is writing to?" You never give any hint or clue as to who D is, unless you did once in the very beginning, but I'm not going to put that much effort into figuring it out.
I read your first sentence and I nodded in agreement. I've felt that way so many times. But then you just kept going on about it and I felt...bored. To be honest, this whole entry just kind of screams, "Woe is me!" in that teenage-girl way that *I* used to write in, and can't stand now. I feel like you were trying to be deep and meaningful in this entry, and the fact that you were trying so hard stands out. Writing isn't meant to be like that; when you are feeling something that strongly, you just let it flow.
You contradict yourself more than once in this entry, and it leaves me frustrated and not knowing what you really said or meant. Such as, "I don't believe that I am sadistic, but from where I stand I may very well be." That sounds like you do believe you are sadistic, right after saying you didn't believe you were. Also, I feel you repeat yourself a lot unnecessarily. You find 3 different ways to say the exact same thing, and I just want to shake my computer screen and say, "I get it already!"
The only thing I really see going for this entry is the last paragraph. I think that is something that a lot of people can really connect with, that is something a lot of people feel. That is the paragraph where you weren't trying to weave deep and poetic words into your thoughts, you just wrote down how you felt.
Then, there's the p.s. at the end. After reading a whole entry about one subject, your p.s. seems to be just some random statement thrown in there for absolutely no reason.

Contact-5/5:E-mail, notes, g-book, comments, and something called "trackback" which I'm not sure what it is, but why not count it? You're definitely stalkable.
Errors-5/5: Good grammar and spelling, none that I could see.
Navigation-5/5: All of your links are organized neatly on the side, easy to read.
Bonus-1/5: I felt like there weren't really any extra things where I could find out cold hard information about you. You have a links page, which has one link on it, and a bunch of review sites that don't even link to a review they've given you. I would have to search for those, but again, why take the time? I gave you 1 point because you at least included the 4 things previously mentioned on the sidebar--although I'd like to see more than just a list of things you love and hate.
Would I read another entry?-0/5: The only reason I clicked back was to see if all of your entries started with Dear D. Just glancing, it seems like a lot of your entries have the same "Woe is me" attitude that just turns me off from this diary.
Quote from Entry: "I look at what is left of my life and I realize that I don't know anything more than things learned from a textbook. I want to live, I want to breathe, I want to be me..."

Last Thoughts: I would consider holding off on any more reviews until you find something new to write about.
Score 36/100

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