Evilsciencechick’s

So against all better judgement, I submitted my site for review at I Talk 2 Much. I don’t need validation that my blog is super awesome (because is SO IS!!! ummm…right?), I just was curious what they’d say, really. You don’t submit your site for review there because you want an honest and unbiased opinion. You submit your site there because it’s funny, they will most likely trash you, but WILL probably have some good points about your template, and…it’s FUNNY!

It figures that my site would finally get reviewed right after a poop post. Swell! Welcome to my blog! I post about poop, yet I am not a mommy! Also, they all threw a major snit fest over there because some of the people who’s blogs they reviewed got all bitchy and whiny about how their blogs got trashed, and OH IT ISN’T FAIR! There was a “strike” and it got all kinds of “this really counts in the real world DAMMIT!” silliness. So, I’m guessing the reviewers aren’t in the best of moods ANYWAY.

All in all, I didn’t come off TOO badly. Two smacks, which is MUCH better than the steaming pile of shit that the next blog reviewed got.

You can see it here, but I’ll post what they said:

I’m really beginning to hate the wordpress template on this one. Everyone and their brother, sister, mother, cat and husband has taken that template and modififed it. I assume it’s a pre-loaded one because everyone has it. The header doesn’t kill me, but the background makes me want to kick somebody’s teeth out. It’s like nails on a chalkboard amplified.

First post I see has pooping and boogar talk in it. Nice introduction, thanks for that. There are some more appealing posts in there, but the archives are sort of hard to navigate. They don’t let you see the entire post without clicking on the title. I fucking hate that, especially when you only put 3 posts on the front page. The sidebar on this blog is nice and neat because of the tabs in the header. I like those except the stupid favicon blogroll. Quit that shit, it’s dorky.

There is a “side blog” in the sidebar that is thankfully short and sweet, and some of those look more exciting than the posts on the front page. It isn’t a bad blog, but it isn’t anything that I would read on a daily basis. Hopefully something can be done to that background.

Ok, I fixed the archive problem. I noticed it a while back, and resorted to posting it on the K2 forum. Seems to work.

One of the reasons I switched to wordpress is because I preferred the much cleaner looking templates, and I was able to better organize things (separate page for links, archives, etc). I know my background is a little eye buggifying right now. I’ll probably change it…eventually. But I like my clean design and simple, easy to change header (explanation for headless babies here). I did NOT want to resort to the cutesy girl blogs, with the header cartoon anime-esque skinny chick sitting in a bubble bath talking on the phone, or whatever*. WAY too girly for me. And SO MANY blogs have that now. So while my K2 template may be everywhere, if I see one more girl blog with the cartoony design, I may scream. But hey, if that’s your thing, fine. I like my basic template. It’s K2, it’s NOT the pre-loaded template, it’s a fancied up version of one of the many basic wordpress templates available. It came with some bells and whistles, and lots of people have it, so lots of people have done their own customizations…that I can steal and use myself. That is the reason I chose it.

*edited to add: that’s not to say I don’t enjoy a blog that happens to have a cartoon-like template. It’s not my intent to go around smack-talking cartoon blogs. If you have one that I read, just know what I will cringe just a little when the page loads. If you care, change it! (HA!) If you don’t care, write “ESC SMELLS!” all over your blog and I will be properly chastised. Seriously, I don’t want to start an “OH NO YOU DI’INT” war here with the skinny cartoon chicks. They may stab me with their pointy brightly colored hair. BwaHA!

And dammit, I like my favicon** blogroll. So much less boring than just a list. And DOUBLE dammit, it took WAY TOO LONG to set up for me to get rid of it now. So I’m not. So THERE! Uhh..nanner nanner boo boo!

**Some of them are actual favicons. The rest I had to make myself because SOME people haven’t figured out how to get rid of their awful blogger/wordpress default yet.

Right. I think I addressed everything there. If you want a fun laugh, submit your blog. It will take a few months, but they’ll get to it. Just know that 9 times out of 10, it won’t be a good review. Learn to laugh at yourself. Then read all the other blogs they ripped apart, and laugh at them, too.