Website Review: Word of Morgan
Today’s review is on the website Word of Morgan. This blog features the rants and raves of a “libertarian atheist.”
Greetings Fellow Ranter - If you couldn’t guess I love a good rant. If you’re angry and can top 2500 words on a topic, I’m game. Bonus points if you include at least three conspiracy theories in each rant. This Johnny Drama look-a-like is especially fun to listen to. He’ll start out sounding perfectly rational and BOOM he’ll be an inch away from claiming there are aliens living in George Bush’s skull.
Crazy, Party of One - The guy’s a Ron Paul supporter (duh) and in this post he talks about why he supports RP. Cool, I got love for Ron Paul. Then at the bottom he gives reasons why no one else is a good choice. McCain has a 50 cent gas price increase in the works and Huckabee will pass faith based legislation. Awesome. Someone needs to watch Schoolhouse Rock again but the President can’t say “boo” and make up laws like this. Stuff like this is totally paranoid and I love it. His piece on corporate criminals being more dangerous than street crime is also gold. Shame he didn’t list “Fight Club” as one of his sources.
But Carl, What About the Design? - Oh, that’s what you care about. Design. You’re so lame. I like some things that are old. Give me an old bottle of wine, classic car and a 26 year old stripper (old in the stripper world) and I’m going to have a wonderful evening. But I don’t like old logos. This logo was either designed in 1993 or was designed by a colorblind cheese grater. It’s got a headless horseman, a horrid American flag font and a cut off atom icon as part of the text. The site itself suffers from similar cheese grater design. It’s cluttered and scattered to no end. There are at least a dozen “blogger aps” clogging the right hand sidebar. The guy created a 125×125 logo of his head and didn’t scale it right, so his head looks like it was sat on by my ex-mother in law (she was fucking huge!). I like visual stuff in posts (except on my blog, because I’m lazy) but this guy overuses photos to no end. He’ll have six in each post. Cut it down. Also that lame “WhAt dO yOu ThiNk?” graphic has got to go. See my post on announcing how lame you are if you want to know why.
Love The Content, Hate the Site - The site just does a lot of things that annoy me. Shame because I really enjoy reading a good rant and this guy is a step away from standing on a street corner in Berkeley. That’s not an insult, I love this shit. Another favorite? A post on why he hates Paula Deen on the Food Network. Short version: her accent! Apparently people from the South with really pronounced accents are annoying. Love it, love it, love it. Shoot the designer and this can turn into a really fun blog.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Word of Morgan // Mar 1, 2008 at 8:18 am
Awesome, all stuff I needed to hear.
I am actually colorblind and have to ask friends about colors. I have a graphics designer working on a new banner to replace the horseman/flag font and I’m shopping for a new 3-column template. The atomic symbol is a reduced ‘American Atheist’ symbol (I should have realized that very few people would recognize it.)
I agree that the flag font is really poor quality and needs replaced.
I never really considered myself a conspiracy theorist. I have some ideas and thoughts that are out there but I’m not a 9-11 “truther” and I don’t claim to have been been fingered by an aliens or reptilian humanoids.
I’ll try pulling some of those ads out of the way. I replaced Adsense with Project Wonderful because I can make 6-7 bucks with them in the time it takes to accumulate .78 cents from Adsense (I get about 250 page visits per day and my tard-click count is not yet high enough to make switching back worth it.)
I don’t know about you but I never click Google ads. If I want to buy something, I specifically search for it and find the best deal.
I think most of my problems came from reading articles that gave blog design tips. The author suggested branding and showing a picture of yourself on the front page with a lengthy about page. I re-sized my head shot and I’ll replace the font with something more professional-looking.
Next was tips to increase comments and improve discussion. It said that you should literally ask for comments and so I thought that the “WhAt dO yOu ThiNk?” graphic was a flashy way to do this for opinionated posts. I’ll remove it.
I’ll iron some things out, re-evaluate those blogger-aps and cut down on the use of photos from now on.
Thanks for the review and pointing me in a better direction.
2 Jim - Just a Guy // Mar 9, 2008 at 3:06 am
Great way to take criticism.
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