If you are a car aficionado and are looking for a new blog that will feed your love for engines, you may want to check out Babez a blog that offers car news, pictures, and wallpapers for all of the pretty vehicles of the world. This blog started in December 200 and was initially intended to be a support page for the luxury car magazine Classic Driver. But it turned into a blog presenting car news from all over the world on both classic and luxury vehicles. This blog publishes magazine articles from official car manufacturer news sources and with that offers the car lovers high-quality pictures with each of its reviews. You can check out some of its reviews by looking at any of its recent bloggeries: BF Performance GT 660, BF Performance GT 540, Audi Metroproject, Hamann Porsche Cayenne Cyclone, Hamann BMW X5 Flash, Hamann Lamborghini Gallardo Victory, Hamann Thunder, Toyota IQ, and BMW 1 Series tii.
I found navigation on this blog very difficult. In fact the further I went into the blog it seemed it was more a site for advertising than anything else. The blog starts off with advertising located even within the header. Posts are centralized with navigation bars on either side. In the left navigation bar you will find nothing but advertising banners or AdSense if you move within content of the blog. In the right navigation bar you will find a feed subscription and a top car links menu. The footer is somewhat difficult to navigate, or understand, I am not really certain what the links are in the footer. Missing from the blog navigation system are elements that make a blog look like a blog – Recent Posts Menu, Categories Menu, or even a blog roll. There is a large number of posts on the opening page and each post contains a link to take you to more pictures a full review of the vehicle being highlighted. This is one element of the blog that will appeal to the readers is the pictoral content. Anyone that has an interest in looking at beautiful cars will not be disappointed with this blog as it contains several pictures accompanied with every post.
That being said I can only go with a 2/5 on this blog, as its wealth of pictures is the only appealing thing I found with this site. The activity scores however are poor with total lack of regular and frequent posting. I mean on the front page I’m seeing posts that are a year old! As mentioned, the blog is very difficult to navigate due to its extreme presence of advertising. This also affects the appearance mark for the blog. The content does not score well as the content is not actually authored by the blog owner, each post contains a note saying ‘text and pictures courtesy of…â€. Overall the blog needs to be neatened up a little bit with some of the advertising being more efficiently formatted. I also think some original content from the author would do this blog a world of good. If however one is inclined to only view pictures of pretty cars, this blog will serve you well, thought it will take you some time to get through the advertising to reach the meat of the vehicle pictures. If this blog were to get a make over and started posting it could be good as it’s already an older established blog.
-Chrissie