This review is being pulled from the bottom of the queue, where I had stashed it when the site resolved without any blog appearing (only the website directory appeared). It was like that for more than a couple of weeks — I checked periodically. I'll be updating the queue as soon as I'm done with this review.
What is "Ramblings from Paul Sanderson" all about?
The title says it all, even if it isn't in the logo (it's in the browser title). Despite it being labeled as "ramblings", there's a lot of good stuff if you look around a bit.
Site Design
I don't remember what the blog originally looked like, but it looks really nice now. It appears to be a custom theme and it reflects a lot of design work being put into it.
The only element of the design that looks like it needs more work would be the footer. There's a stray "Smashing Magazine" copyright notice stuck in the middle of the categories list. Also, the 3 images for the lists, designed to be the backgrounds for those lists, don't extend far enough to cover them. I recommend changing those backgrounds to CSS boxes and repeated small images (except for the turned up flap), if only to save on server connections and download speed.
Article Content
As I said, there's a lot of good stuff on the blog, and an item I found in the sidebar (featured) was good enough to steal my time away. I read "7 Websites No Website Developer Should Be Without" and then followed the link provided, read the article there and then followed another link and I was lost for about an hour.
This might not happen to you. I'm interested in design applications (because I'm redesigning the theme for this blog) and I was consumed with interest.
My Overall Opinion
The blog isn't quite awesome yet, but it has the potential to be exactly that. I could go on and on, but if you visit the blog and look around a while, you'll see exactly what I mean.
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