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Underground Unrest doesn’t seem to be underground nor does it fatigue me (get it? Unrest! Unrest = fati- nevermind). Still, you can’t judge from first impressions, so lets take a closer look. Actually, you can judge a book by its cover. Seriously, who thought up that one? A book called “Soviet-era Repression” isn’t going to be about ponies and pixie dust. In the same sense, Underground Unrest probably won’t be about happy things or beds either. Time to investigate!

MORE FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The colors blend quite well overall - grey, white, dark grey, grey, white, grey, grey. Can’t go wrong with that.

You can go wrong with sidebars, though (most blogs do). And Underground Unrest has done just that.

• The right sidebar flows together like a muddled grey river filled with words (+1 point). There are no labellings for “recent comments,” “recent posts,” “tags,” or “blogroll.” I was left scratching my head as to why Mayor McCheese said something about “listening to them…” on the blog.
• Recent visitors sticks out like useless, sore thumb on the left sidebar (+1 point). Awesome, you get visitors from Canada! I don’t care!
• The one thing that might come close to mattering (a “vote for me” badge) is kept on the bottom of the left sidebar below the useless visitor widget (+1 point). If you want votes, put it above the fold. Otherwise it looks like you’re too scared to ask.

Oh, and how do I get back to the homepage (+1 point)? The header is not clickable and there is no visible “home” button.

WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
That’s my one question - what the hell am I reading? There’s no “About” page nor are there any categories (+1 point). Therefore, I can only rely on the tags. Lets see a short sampling: dead, drugs, Britney Spears, funny, the serpent curse. Thanks for clearing that up, Jaden (the blog owner).

It actually has some funny stuff, though. After reading a couple of posts I’ve realized that it’s mainly humor - funny pictures mixed with satirical articles (at least I hope an evil coalition of clowns doesn’t really want to kill America’s children!). I got some laughs out of reading it.

DRUMROLL, PLEASE

Lets tally up the score (every point is a thumbs down!):

1. The sidebar is messy.
2. Recent visitors - who cares?
3. If you want to get votes on Fuel My Blog, display the button more prominently.
4. I can’t get back home!
5. Uhm. What the hell am I reading?

Underground Unrest may not yet have achieved A- B- C-list status, but at least it’s halfway there.

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