If you are looking for some tips and tricks on how to live a little more frugally, then you may want to check out Bird on a Wire, the definitive guide to frugal living. It is largely a blog about finances. The bloggers is a life advisor that teaches others how to identify values, banish debt, start saving, and begin investing. The blogger aims to teach you how to budget and how living frugally doesn’t necessarily mean you are living on the streets. To learn more about this blogger and this blog, check out their most recent bloggeries: Updates from Remarkable Bloggers, Breadcrumbs, Confession is Good for the Soul, Niche Me Once, Finally Friday, Dancing Backwards in High Heels, and Common Sense Makes Cents.
The blog is very well organized and comes in a clean well-laid out template which makes it easy to navigate. Bloggeries are in black text on white background, all placed on a backdrop of beige background with links highlighted in red. The blog offers several navigation systems, both a top and a bottom navigation system containing the same links to Home, About Us, Contact Us, Network, Privacy, Disclosure, and SERO. Bloggeries are left marginalized and there is a double wide right navigation bar on the right. At the top of this system is a convenient search bar where you can search the Archives and Categories Menu as well as the blog itself, followed by some advertising, Recent Posts Menu, and Blog Directory buttons. The navigation system then switches into two bars where the right bar contains blog stats and advertising, and the left bar contains Great Sites menu, Remarkable bloggers, Top Blog Sites, and We Read These menu. Each bloggery is accompanied by at least one relevant picture making the blog colorful and interesting to read, and each bloggery is also associated with a Related Posts Links menu where readers can access similar information on the blog.
This blog gets a 4.8/5 for me as it scores well on all accounts. The blog is easy to read with well-written content that has both a personal voice and user friendly tone for its tips. The content is also coming in at a nice steady pace with daily regular content. Further, the overall appearance of the blog is appealing, with a lot of information and graphics that are managed well so that they are not distracting. The blog is well organized into a variety of navigations systems that make reading this blog not only easy, but enjoyable. This is a great blog on a unique topic that will sure to see some steady growth and success.
-Chrissie