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Thanks and good luck with improving your blog!

While there were several participants that provided excellent reviews, I found Rarst's to be he most thorough and detailed and therefore he is the winner.

Donace's review was a close second and because it was such a great effort I would like to give him a brand spanking new plugin that we just developed called Widget Locationizer. It gives you total control over your widgets by letting you assign post/page IDs, tags, and categories for which it will appear. It essentially makes your widgets smarter permitting better ad targeting. You can find it here if you're interested: http://tomuse.com/wordpress/widget-locationizer

Thanks again everyone!

Thanks so much for all the great recommendations and detail! So many things to address. I am very appreciative.

Syed:

Thank you, I will remove the tags display and rethink the ads.

Donace:

I caught your review in the forum, thanks!

The Geek:

Thanks for the likes, its nice to hear what works too I will address the gaps, remove the tags display on homepage and archives (gets rid of subscription links too). Thank you for the encouragement as well!

Likes:

~Colors… good contrast, easy to read

~variety of posts, screen shots, and videos, seems original and well thought out

~pages load quick

~Categories on sidebar

Dislikes:

~too busy… where is the content?

~header is sparse and hard to

~gaps between posts, feels like something is missing or didn't load

~too many 'subscription' links, it's overload

~difficult to determine the purpose of this blog

Keep at it! It's a great start!

Kick Kevin (BloggingTips one) in email, Akismet here kills long comments all the time lately.

btw I heard AllInOneSEO is still supported, changed developer or something like that. Last update was in end of October.

archives I noticed

No follow them! and secondly consider moving from allinoneseo to platinum seo as allinone is no longer supported while platinum is,

First impression – and content is where?..

Second impression – oh, content is that tiny thing between the ads!

Answering questions

1. It has too many stuff going on at the same time. Impression of a mess where you don't really see what is good and what is bad.

2. Sit with pencil and draw meaningful layout.

3. Page itself is reasonable but amount of script (31 script, 400+Kb) is not.

4. No. Categories block in sidebar is to dependent on script, at first I thought it was non-functional demo. Took it some time to start working.

Tags are overused, there is no system to them and too many similar ones. Recent post has three different variations with g1 for example.

Comparing to original theme header and footer areas that are supposed to help with navigation are changed to advertisement instead.

5. It's insane. I counted eleven huge ad blocks on home page. On post pages more reasonable but still ad-heavy.

General notes

6. Doesn't validate. And it's not like usual few things missing, it's like over three hundred errors. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://tomuse.c…

7. Scripts. It took few minutes for browser to finish digesting scripts and actually start working as intended.

8. It kinda has two taglines and secondary actually sounds more meaningful.

Static page

9. Submit news seems useless.

10. WordPress page is about premium plugins, why isn't it called premium plugins?

11. Can't imagine anyone using ton of those search forms.

12. Lifestream on about page mostly shows same link spammed to every possible social service.

Index

13. Too many ads, tags and subscribe links. Area for actual excerpts is tiny and they are auto-generated which doesn't help visibility at all.

Single post page

14. Too many of social/subscribe stuff again. Register for comment? I wonder if anyone bothers.

15. Posts have plenty of graphics but close to none sub-headings and text formating.

Sidebar

16. Google search says Google twice.

17. Tag cloud is overkill and unusable.

18. I mentioned that categories block is too complex and slow-working.

Footer

19. Bottom line would look better centered.

20. It says 2006-2008 but blog was only started in 2008?

Overall

It looks like blog strives to have everything. Hundreds of social links to be social, hundreds of subscribe links to get tons of subscribers, dozens of ads to make pile of money.

So do you get enourmous amount of traffic, subscribers and money from this? If not I think it's time to look for things that work and cut things that don't.

Thanks for your constructive criticism. I "hate" it when people jump to conclusions but then again, I remind myself that I am not perfect either and then I am humbled by my own thoughts and words.

Any other problems with my theme?