WP Zoom is a website owned by Pavel Ciorici, who happens to be only a year older then me!

The website had a redesign recently, which I am happy about. The other design was nice, but I personally found the comments hard to read (on the old design).

Now on to what I like and what I don’t like…

What I like:

• The navigation-It is laid out nicely. and evenly apart. The categories look great as a sub-navbar.
• The option to subscribe to RSS/Email is prominent in the header.
• The overall design looks good but then again one of my favorite colors is blue so I may be a bit biased in this opinion.
• Overall, the design has a nice soft feel to it.
• The thumbnails on posts on the main page look fantastic!
• The content is great as well- many of the posts are done in a list format which makes it easier to read.
• The logo- it is sweet and simple!

What I Don’t Like:

• The light gray on gray content background makes the text a bit challenging to read. It is readable, but I think it may be better if the font was a wee bit darker.
• The giant RSS icon-I know this wouldn’t bother most people but that huge icon kept distracting me from reading the actual content.
• Feed Count in footer-who’s going to look down there?

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5. Using WordPress as a Portfolio: Examples & Themes (15+)

As you can see I liked more then what I didn’t like.  This blog is home to a lot of excellent content and consists of one of the best web roundups I have ever seen. Zoom over to www.wpzoom.com and subscribe to their RSS feed.

My first real website addition is catswhocode.com which is owned and maintained by Jean-Baptiste Jung. It also happens to be the first among the “Combo” area, which is to say that the blog has both a great design AND great content.

Cats Who Code recently got a design overhaul which looks stunning.

What I Like:

• The Cats- they are just so cute! You can see his own cat on his about page, and a cartoon one in the header.
• The category labelling on the post thumbnails on the home page. I have rarely seen blogs doing this. It makes the posts seem more organized and I can tell right away if it is from a category that interests me.
• The ease of navigation-it is very easy to navigate through the categories and pages of the blog. Both are kept separate so it does not confuse the reader.
• The content is always laid out nicely.
• The content does not get boring and is always useful.

What I didn’t like:

• No e-mail form- I prefer to subscribe by email and I also prefer to have the form on the same page so I don’t have to keep clickin through pages just to sign up to the website feed.
• Email subscription not even enabled.

Other then that CatsWhoCode.com is a great website to read and subscribe to, especially if you are into Wordpress, Web Design and Blogging.

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1. Wordpress Contest-Win a Premium Theme
2. How to have 1000+ Subscribers in less then two months
3. How to: create an ads rotator with php
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5. How to capture social media visitors with ease