John Chowderhead

I believe I Stumbled Upon this website a couple weeks ago.  This website allows people to submit various neurosis they may have and have them published.  It’s pretty amusing, good for a laugh, and a site you can waste some time with.  I thought it was a great idea to encompass the broad range of phobias and other mental disorders under the umbrella of “neurosis,” in order to get the most bang for the buck.

The font is clean and easy to read and there’s not much clutter so it’s very easy to navigate.  The Author updates the site fairly regularly which keeps the blog alive.

Final Review +

I give “i am neurotic.” a 1 Spoonful of Chowder blog rating.  I thought the idea was great and the site is clean.  However, the site could be improved quite a bit.

Design ++ Simple.  Basic.  Clean.  2 spoons of Chowder.

Content ++ I struggled with whether or not to give 1or 2 spoons of Chowder on this one.  The content is user-submitted so the author really doesn’t have to do much in order to provide content, giving it only 1 spoonful of Chowder.  Also, I’d like to see a home page or an about page for the author so I could get more familiar with the author. However, I gave the site some additional chowder for it’s author choosing good content to display and keeping the blog alive by posting frequently.  2 spoonfuls of Chowder.

Usability *  Here’s where some of you may disagree with me.  I gave the site 1 Chowderhead for Usability.  While the site is obviously easy to navigate and use, there’s really not much to the site.  I found myself getting bored after reading a few posts and hitting some of the links on the right side bar.  Usability is fine… but that’s easy when there’s not much to use.  However, since the author updates the site frequently, I will be back, which is why I gave it extra Chowder for Content.

Please share any good or bad blog posts you may encounter while surfing the web or let me know if you have a site you’d like for me to review.  I will review your site or your submitted site on my blog for a low fee.

John Chowderhead