Fruit lovers are going to love this next blog! This blog is all about fruit plain and simlple. The blog is called Fruit Species, and is run by blogger known as Fruity. Here at this blog you will be able to find all kinds of fruits from all over the globe, including exotic and rare fruits. The blog is not a blog about the most ordinary of fruits, and you will find information here on any kind of exotic fruit found anywhere in the world. Each bloggery is accompanied by a beautiful picture of something you have likely never seen or heard of before. To see these for yourself, check out Fruit Species most recent bloggeries: FRUIT Thumbnails, Passion Fruit (Purple Rind), What’s Your FIVE Favorite Fruits, Dragon Fruit (White Flesh), Hardy Kiwifruit, Pulasan, and Cape Gooseberry.
The blog is formatted a bit differently I think, and there are some navigation issues with the blog. Bloggeries are left marginalized and are in white text on a dark green background which creates a perfect background for a fruity theme. Each bloggery also is accompanied by a beautiful picture or set of pictures of fruit, which are only enhanced by this color theme. The blog has a right navigation system that contains a Google Search Bar, About and Profile Information, AdSense, Top Page Views Since Sept. 13th Menu, Blog Widget (currently not working), Top Favorite Fruits Voted by 50 Surfers Menu, a Fruit Menu which is a list of 25 fruits and essentially functions as the Categories Menu, Fruit Recipes, Blog Reviews, Food Blog Links, Top 30 Commenters Menu, Blog Directories buttons, and Blog Visitors Widgets. There are some other blog features as well which seem to be floating around where a left navigation bar might be, but they are formatted way at the bottom of the blog. This problem was not rectified by switching to Firefox to view the blog so the blogger may want to look into this. In this section contained subscription info for the blog, technorati links, and Blog Awards. I would suggest moving subscription buttons into the right navigation bar near the top so that new readers can have easy access to it, as this may help with subscription stats at this point. New readers may be missing this with its current location.
I will give this blog a 3/5 and right now it is mostly formatting that is affecting the score. The appearance of the blog is lovely and scores well, the theme is very appealing to the niche the blogger is writing about. The content is done well as well, and is extremely informative to the readers of the blog. Navigation again does have some issues as previously mentioned. Activity is not as frequent as it could be, and I imagine it might be difficult finding regular content on this topic. I might suggest to get more traffic to add daily content to the blog if possible. Suggestions for possible content would be fruit recipes, fruity drinks, and so on with any of the blog’s featured fruits. Overall however, this is a unique blog that is doing well with its concept as a foundation and a clearly established readership. Should the blogger be able to do some tweaks with the formatting and update a little more often, its success can only grow.
-Chrissie
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