My Blog Got Frogged.

By Crystal at 8:30 pm on September 21, 2006

My blog got frogged. :-p Basically you submit ur blog and people at FrogMyBlog review it, comment and then tell you how they think you can make it better.  I got 3 out of 5 ladybugs.  Middle of the road.
so here is what they said.

Turns out that Cookie isn’t a chocolate chip but a horse. Drats, I was kinda hoping for a chewy gooey chocolate chip with walnuts. I’ll get over that though because Cookie is a handsome animal and her equestrian owner turned blogger has centered the blog around the two of them. You’ll find plently of photos in the gallery without ever having to leave the site. I like that, why don’t more people forgo Flicker and keep their photos on their page? Speaking of photos, the masthead is a nice change of pace from the average blog and it sets the mood right away for who Crystal and Cookie are.

aw. yay. so far, so good. She called Cook a handsome animal. yay.

I’d change the blog title on it though because it is too difficult to read.

Yeah, I can see that. the Crystal part is a hard to read.

There is an issue on the front page making the sidebar all wonky and that needs fixed but other than that the sidebar is blissfully clutterfree and easy to navigate.

Yeah, I knew this too. It shows up when viewing this blog in IE. I’m mad at Eric for not fixing this!

As mentioned, the blog centers around she and mostly the horse. Unfortunately Cookie the horse doesn’t appear to be doing well these days so I’ve caught her in the middle of a down time. It isn’t the type of blog that I think will appeal to the average user but I’m a bit surprised she hasn’t gained a following with others in the horse lover niche. If this blog has room to improveit would mostly be in writing more about life as a horse lover and reaching out to other equisterians and getting them to participate more. Personal blogs should be interactive; if people aren’t commenting you probably want to ask yourself why not. For those that say you don’t care about what others think about your writing, why are you posting it on the net again?

Here is to hoping that Cookie gets better soon.

It’s actually a pretty nice review. and actually, I agree. Most people outside of the horse world don’t care about this blog, with the few exceptions of my friends and family who read this on the regular. I do wish that people would comment more, but sometimes there isn’t anything a non horse person can respond to. You can only say ‘good well, Cook’ so many times.

I do think it was especially nice for the blog reviewers to say she hopes Cook gets better soon. That makes me happy.

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    Comment by Eric

    September 22, 2006 @ 6:17 pm

    Ugh, stupid IE!

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    Comment by Eric

    September 22, 2006 @ 7:28 pm

    FIXED!!!

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    Comment by Crystal

    September 22, 2006 @ 8:52 pm

    GOOD! about time!

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