Review of wordexplosions.blogspot.com

Wordexplosions.blogspot.com is one of the many class blogs in Jenn Zuko's English 121 class. The blogs purpose is to be used to post class work so that class mates peers can read each others works and benefit from the input that the other students may have. While the blog fulfills the requirements set for it in terms of content as a class blog, the variable layout and clashing nature of the default view is distracting and detracts from the overall experience.
When you first pull up the website to said blog you may be surprised. This is most definitely not your average blog. Instead of your standard vertical orientation, the authors have decided to create a flip card layout. This would be fine if the authors had not also included seven other designs. This is not a sufficient design because each post changes depending on the orientation you choose. For example, some of the flip cards are left blank and without a title when in fact they do have titles when viewed in classic.
The blog itself leaves the reader questioning which format was indeed intended to be viewed. The layout severely ruins the readers view of the blog and cuts into its quality. The blog as a whole is not all that bad but the content clarity and organization drags the all over quality of the blog itself down.
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(The visual is an example of one of the many templates that blogger offers. The one pictured above is called snapshot.)