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Jason aka Smeg4Brains's picture

Jason aka Smeg4Brains / Sat, 2012-02-18 23:12

The other day I decided I should start my own film blog. It probably won’t end up being exclusively about film but that’s what it is for now.

This is partly shameless plug but it’s mostly asking for advice. I’m new to this and would welcome any constructive criticism.

www.awesomefilm.wordpress.com

Thanks


HelloMabel / Thu, 2012-02-23 20:14 / #

As no one has responded to this yet, I’ll just pipe up to say it looks quite good so far. You might consider telling your readers a little about yourself and your perspective on a bio page, just some kind of personalization to differentiate yours from the other film blogs out there.


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Jason aka Smeg4... / Thu, 2012-02-23 22:36 / #

Thanks for the input. I’ll give that ago tomorrow. Any thought’s on the logo? I wasn’t sure if it was too difficult to read.


Karnie / Fri, 2012-02-24 20:57 / #

Looks good, clean, easy to navigate. But for the love of God, change the title font!


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Ben Paddon / Fri, 2012-02-24 23:17 / #

I agree with Karnie.


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Jason aka Smeg4... / Sun, 2012-02-26 00:09 / #

Thanks for the feedback. What do you guys think to this logo?
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/8039/lotrm.png


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Plastic Percy / Sun, 2012-02-26 00:19 / #

I’d say go for something a bit more, well, original instead of copying fonts and designs from other movies.


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Seb Patrick / Sun, 2012-02-26 22:50 / #

Isn’t the point that he’s referencing those movies deliberately, though? Since it’s a… movie blog?

I think the idea’s good, though you’ll want to keep a few different ones in rotation for it to really work…


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Pete Part Three / Sun, 2012-02-26 23:03 / #

Nice, but I’d make the intro to each entry a bit more detailed. The homepage is very sparse and one line of text isn’t going to invite me to click for more.

I find the title a bit, well, desperate really.

The Matrix font is a little unreadable, but I agree that rotating several styles will probably work well.


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Jason aka Smeg4... / Mon, 2012-02-27 10:05 / #

My original idea was to have a random version of the logo appear each time the page was loaded (guess where I got the idea) but it doesn’t seem I can do that with the free wordpress blogs.


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Jason aka Smeg4... / Mon, 2012-02-27 12:14 / #

I don’t know if they’ve just recently added this or if the option has been in front of my stupid face this entire time but it seems I can randomise the header.


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Ben Paddon / Mon, 2012-02-27 19:10 / #

I’;d recommend making the logo smaller. You don’t want it to dominate the page.


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Jason aka Smeg4... / Mon, 2012-02-27 20:59 / #

It wouldn’t allow me to use the image I posted before because it has to be 930 x 198. I now have 4 randomising headers though.


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Jason aka Smeg4... / Thu, 2012-03-01 16:54 / #

I look Mabel’s advice and created an ‘About’ page. I’ve also got 7 different logo’s that randomise on each page load.

http://awesomefilm.wordpress.com/about-1/


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Jason aka Smeg4... / Wed, 2012-03-28 09:38 / #

Thanks for you input, it’s really….wait a minute!


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Jason aka Smeg4... / Wed, 2012-03-28 11:31 / #

Oh great…you deleted that spam post and now I just look like I’m being a nob.


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Danny Stephenson / Wed, 2012-03-28 11:35 / #

Apologies, I did that. i’ve been told we need to rid spam ASAP otherwise it escalates. Didn’t mean to ruin your joke :(


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Jason aka Smeg4... / Wed, 2012-03-28 11:48 / #

Fair enough. I should have expected it to be fair.


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Jonathan Capps / Wed, 2012-03-28 13:24 / #

The loss of the joke is a blow to the site but… I think we can pull through.


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Jason aka Smeg4... / Wed, 2012-03-28 16:26 / #

> The loss of the joke is a blow to the site but… I think we can pull through.

I think you’re being overly optimistic.


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Kris Carter / Wed, 2012-03-28 21:25 / #

That joke was the glue holding this thread together… And now… Well.