Review: PureBlogging.com

Sad thing, ReviewMe rules force me to mention this is a paid review. Why? No, I love getting money for doing something. I could just do it for free if I came across PureBlogging on my own. The point is that I didn't. I found it among offers at ReviewMe. Actually, if I've found I'd just subscribe to it's feed and tell you nothing. so hail ReviewMe!

So, what's PureBlogging? It is a community of authors writing about blogs and blogging. What? Yes. Yet another blogging blog for bloggers, right. There are thousands of them already. Why should you bring your attention to it? I didn't say you should.

I only say that this site, though looking ordinary wordpress-mu blog, could get enough of my attention. There are so many bloggers writing about how cool they are (and even more – writing about how cool is John Chow is), but I liked this site. Not that or another.

I can list you the site's weaknesses, like menu sometimes covering a little piece of navigation and ad block, or irritating “Share and Enjoy” links to 17 (seventeen!) social networking, or bad-looking (wrong color) orange stuff in the header, or completely useless “Meta” section is sidebar (we're all sinners), but that doesn't matter, I got pleasure reading it.

I can also list the site's advantages, even though they also don't matter:

• Excellent ad placement. There are large ad blocks, but non of them look too big or not at it's place. Even if you won't find anything new to you in their posts, look at how the ads are placed. Great work.
• Nice WP theme. And a nice customization of this theme. Love their headlines and link hovers. However, the acronyms are useless and look ugly inside the links: none od their readers need explanation of whats RSS or URI
• Thoughtfully designed sidebar. Items that should be on top are on top. The ones that should be on the right, are on the right. I'm still stuck with the layout of my own sidebar, so I'm jealous.
• The content. Yes! They got it. No breaking news, no unique ideas (what idiot would share really unique know-how?), but interesting and easy to read. That's why I read them. I'm not that interested in monetizing blog, but loved Blogging Basics series by Roberta Ferguson (she seems to be hard rock fan, and I liked that, too).
• Links. I rarely post any links here, and it's not that good. They post “Weekend Links” regularly, and I should acquire that idea.

Maybe it's all not true and I am mistaken, but for now I like that site and think it's a great place for “advanced-beginner” bloggers. I'll tell you what does that mean on day, now I'll just mention we're all advanced beginners and wish you good night.

Jun. 06, 2007 // 04:54 | No Comments