Review: kuri-chan

First impression: clean and oh-so-cool, young and hip.

Layout: Your cool baby blue background and single anime-style image of flying work well together, and your links are organized. All of the links on the main page work. The simplicity of the design belies the complexity of its content, but that may be a favorable thing, as it permits the focus to remain on said content.

[27 out of 30 points]

Frequency: You have many, many entries since your diary was initially created - too many for Miss Dawn to read them all! Your posting occurs every few days, not on any identifiable schedule. It seems that you write when the mood strikes you, despite allusions of a desire to write daily entries, and you have many months with fewer than ten entries. Allowing for a couple of references of being away from the Internet, the lapses are still too frequent and extended.

[5 out of 10 points]

Content: As mentioned before, there are too many entries in your diary to read them all. Alas, too many is also a term which could be applied to several of your links pages. You have so many web rings, quiz results, and various other links and graphic/verbal potpourri that they swim together before a reader's eyes. Rather than giving your readers any real insight to who you are as a person, the glut of web confetti overwhelms. A few select pieces might add sparkle to your diary, but discretion is required for those details to have impact. Miss Dawn would strongly urge you to venture into art of the Far East, where the unadorned image of a single blossom displays the intricacy in a single, simple object.

Other diary entries are much as one would expect, allowing for your age. Your focus is on school, friends, music, and an exploration of your own choices and beliefs. Sadly, much of the writing is misspelled and difficult to follow. You refer at one point to questions of your sexual orientation, then avow you're too young to really have an identifiable sex drive. Miss Dawn must applaud that brief flash of insight, because it indicates that you recognize the fluidity of this transitory period of your life. There are later suggestions that you may be interested in both sexes.

Much of the content is random and revolves around snippets of conversation and fragmented dayparts, sometimes related and sometimes not. It is your diary and relevent to you, so you are certainly entitled to continue in that format and context. A note, however: to a stranger, it can become tedious and extremely difficult to follow.

[26 out of 60 points]

[58 out of 100 points]

[58 percent]

[Miss Dawn]