The tagline reads "Welcome to the Travel, HR and Business Blog by Shrinidhi Hande. eNidhi stands for electronic Shrinidhi." and that's what's in my blogroll as well. I'd been to his blog before, but I never thought I'd have to review eNidhi:A professional amateur . After looking at his blog with a critical eye, I didn't want to do the review. The review isn't for me though, it's for him.

As interesting as Shrinidhi's articles are, I knew I had to be negative in my critique. It had nothing to do with the content; it had everything to do with the design. While I appreciate his generous use of screen real estate, the header images and the color scheme threw me off. The scrolling widget in the sidebar was extremely distracting. I viewed the blog in my widescreen resolution, 1024×768 and 800×600 and none of the sizes helped the appearance in any way. The colors and images just don't go together very well.

I have nothing against originality and there's a ton of it on this blog. There are just a lot of problems, especially with the sidebar. The "Email Subscriptions & Blog Listings" section looks completely unorganized, not to mention this code being visible: End of digital clock code–> –>

I was curious and looked at the results of his poll in the sidebar. It appears there a few people that don't like it. I'm thinking it's all because of the design and not about the content. I have a few suggestions: Header image - make sure both images align and try reducing the width a few pixels so that it doesn't get cut off on the right at the 1024×768 resolution. Page background color - consider using one color instead of two. Do away with the animation - it distracts from the content. Consider a scrollbox to contain the information.

I'm sorry I have to be so negative, Shrinidhi. You've got some great content along with some that's not so great. Given the age of your blog, the only thing that's keeping it from ranking well in statistics like Alexa and Technorati is the design. You won't increase readership until you get in there and clean it up, organize the sidebar and remove things that distract from the content. I'm afraid the design itself is sending your readers away.

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