Blogs Malaysia

It’s been a very quiet blog new year and it’s good seeing not that many flame wars being thrown around. Most of them nowadays are the stale fights with common bloggers. I suppose that’s a sign of a good year ahead.

But even the new year has some things in store for all of us. Like Blogs Malaysia when it first launched last year, generated much hype but towards the end of the year it faded away like old news. Have bloggers lost their interest or is it that every one is still hung over from their new year party.

I’m going to do this review a little differently this time because I’m just too lazy of pointing out what I know. Besides, the more eyes the better. And the more brains, the finer details of the website we could pick out.

So please take some time and analyze this screenshot. I’d like your version of a review. :)

As usual, don’t be shy to look at it in finer detail by clicking on the image.

Please also be honest in your comments. Here, there’ll be no deleting or editing of your review as long you’re not found to be doing it on purpose.

To get the ball started, there have been suggestions of making the text larger and I too feel that it would help.

Pass the ball around.

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Posted by dannyfoo on January 18, 2006 | Filed Under Website Design |

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18 Responses to “Blogs Malaysia”

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  1. Response #1 by Tiara on January 18th, 2006

    The site is fine – you guys just need to market it more. No point redesigning the thing if no one knows of its existence.

    LJ has something similar named The Readers List, whereby a group of LJers post the best entries they find around Livejournal. Maybe you can increase the editorship more, or give some sort of perk for having a BM-posted entry.

  2. Response #2 by Jee on January 18th, 2006

    I absolutely love the design, no design changes r needed.

    I agree with Tiara with more editors, the blogsmalaysia challenge is lack of new contents sometimes.

    From your screenshot got 7 post in the same day (17/1) is very extremely rare. Last time I visited mostly 1 or 2 recommendations a day.

    A forum might help?

  3. Response #3 by Razlan on January 18th, 2006

    I have been reading it off Bloglines, so most site design don’t really matter to me :)

  4. Response #4 by Danny Foo on January 18th, 2006

    Holy cow. I expected the screenshot to be long but that’s abit over. Sigh, sorry about that people.

    Publicity is definetely something not really being generated by Blogs Malaysia at the moment.

    Jee:
    how would a forum help Blogs Malaysia and its goal?

  5. Response #5 by SpyMy on January 18th, 2006

    And the problem with blogsmalaysia is not the design, the design is very nice, it’s the editors, they are too picky and have too many conflicting views, for something so young you should just allow virtually everything. There is no Alpha lead either.

    “Comment edited due to personal advertising.” – Danny Foo

  6. Response #6 by Edrei on January 19th, 2006

    The heart of something like Blogs Malaysia was never the design, it was always the content. Just that with the scores of blogs that were recommended, alot were turned down regardless hence no content updates and people lose interest in it…even the editors themselves lose interest in it.

  7. Response #7 by ZEO on January 19th, 2006

    Hi,

    Seriously, nothing interest me about it. It’s only an excerpt of an original story with 1 or 2 line of editor “review”. 99% chances of the entry have already pinged PPS. And some already read the story. Which brings the point that 99% of blogsmalaysia visitor is also from PPS.

    Malaysia is small you know.

    My 2 cent :)

    Cheers.

  8. Response #8 by Lim Chee Aun on January 19th, 2006

    Weird, the site does ‘look’ quiet, for some reason.

  9. Response #9 by Swifty on January 19th, 2006

    The following two entries of mine pretty much point out (painstakingly) what’s wrong with the site.

    http://swiftywriting.blogspot.com/2006/01/swifty-ponders-about-blogsmalaysiacom.html
    http://swiftywriting.blogspot.com/2006/01/oops-too-late-for-digg-system-swifty.html

    Both articles focus more on their system than the layout though.

  10. Response #10 by Danny Foo on January 19th, 2006

    Design set aside, does anyone have problems reading the text? anyone finding it small on their resolutions (if possible, please list what resolution you’re using.)?

    I’m going to be upfront here. I’ve been commissioned to give Blogs Malaysia a facelift if necessary. That’s why this discussion is up. But it looks like there’s more to just the design that might need sorting.

    Anyone else have any other suggestions of improvements? Or feel I should redesign it? :)

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