A blog containing news, tips, hints, ideas and freebies for people building websites or blogs (stolen from the tagline).
What is "laptopmanpaul.co.uk" all about?
It's a blog that oriented towards information technology of all kinds. It's actually an "off-shoot" of webcumbria.co.uk, the main portal for all of his personal websites and his website construction business (some of that was stolen from his "about" page).
Site Design
This blog is using one of those themes that doesn't use quite all of the available screen real estate the 1024×768 resolution (still the most widely-used resolution) has to offer. Most people don't realize how much more scrolling is required when the theme is just an inch narrower than it could be.
I noticed the tag cloud in the sidebar, but I couldn't find his list of categories anywhere. Besides being an almost a standard on blogs, categories count as additional pages. Perhaps Paul doesn't feel it's necessary to display categories because they'd just be lumped into one, but I see the potential to for several categories.
I found it odd that there's only one article displayed on the front page. This is the first time I've seen that and I'm not sure what to make of it. Each of the archives pages only displays one article at time also. This makes looking for past articles very cumbersome.
Article Content
The latest article, "Selling your blog for $10k - surely not?", talks about buying and selling blogs at sitepoint.com. I suppose buying and selling of purely informational-type blogs is a worthwhile pursuit, but I can't see it for blogs with personality.
I found most of the articles easy to read, except for one small detail: The justified text. On some lines it's just excruciating to try and read the complete sentence naturally.
My Overall Opinion
The blog appears to be about 4 months old and there isn't a great deal of content. Since Paul maintains many blogs at the same time, I don't expect the content to grow in volume quickly. In this kind of situation, I'm sure quality will prevail over quantity.
Due to the low publishing frequency, this blog should have feeds by email enabled (but doesn't as far as I can tell).
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