Delve into the Mind of A Budding Blogger is a blog run by 12 year old blogger Meghna. It is about school, writing, books, fiction, as well as the occasional completely bizarre news article about cows being arrested.
Alright, so let’s jump right into this, shall we?
Subscription Info - The first thing I looked for was feed subscription buttons, and to my surprise they were tucked away in the left-hand column. I kinda expected them to be in the right hand column above or below the “About Me” section. I also noticed (like with the last review) the feed for the button and for the auto discovery point to different URLs.
Need A Different Ad? - The square ad on the left sidebar runs right to the edge of the sidebar (and even a bit past that). Nothing too big - but it was a bit distracting when reading the top post.
My Best Posts - Excellent! A big, big plus! It is actually one thing I’ve been meaning to redo here for a few days. One quick thing, however, the “My best posts” label is a bit hard to read, it’s showing up orange/red instead of white.
Big Space - There’s a really really large gap between the archives and the MyBlogLog reader list. It was just a bit of a shock to the eyes to be reading, see a good chunk of whitespace on the side, then all of this sudden see another item.
Rating
My overall rating for Delve into the Mind of A Budding Blogger is:
Content: 7/10 - A bit random at times, but well written.
Design: 6/10 - Fix some of the things with the RSS button placement, gaps, and the “My Best Posts” label and this’ll go up to an 8 out of 10 
Uniqueness: 9/10 - I haven’t really run into any other blogs that cover the same topics and such.
Overall: 7/10 - Some work needs to be done but it is coming along nicely, keep up the good work
If you’re into creative writing you can check it out here (feed).
Please subscribe, or else I will cry. Do you really want to make a programmer cry?
October 20th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
You will most likely see the “Account Suspended” Page when you get high traffic.
I get it showing on my site when I trigger the CPU Limit.
It will stay there for 5 minutes and then your site will open back up again.
It can be annoying, especially on them busy days. But to be paying $20+/ month I’ll stick to the shared for now until my sites start paying enough to be able to support a dedicated server.
October 20th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Thank you Jereme, for the really nice review you have done. I am sure to look into the suggestions given by you and am going to do an overrhauling of the layout and other things. Thanks again for your time, efforts and really great suggestions for improvement!!
October 20th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
No problem