This evening I reviewed a blog called New York Traveler, written by Mrs Mecomber.

The first thing that catches my eye when the blog loads on my screen is the header. The header contains three photos of what could be photos of sights the author has seen. And then there’s the golf cart with her family in it. I love it! New York Traveler is currently on a three column theme made up of white, red and green. It takes me 23 clicks to get from the top of the blog’s home page to the bottom.

At the top of the blog there are five tabs where pages would usually be seen. I found out by clicking that three of the tabs take you off to New York sites. One of the tabs takes you to one of Mrs Mecomber’s three other blogs. A little lower down, only inches away, in the left of the two sidebars are links to all of Mrs Mecomber other blogs. Be careful with external sites that aren’t yours in your navigation. You don’t want a visitor clicking on something that will take them somewhere else before they might be done on your site. Think sticky. Navigating between one person’s blogs is usually fairly simple. But navigating back to your blog once someone has left it may be more work than they want to do. I would include a tab for the About page up there.

The sidebars are neatly organized but there sure is a lot over there. The category list is REALLY long. If you ever want to organize it you can either put up a categories page or put the categories in a dropdown. The archive list is long because it shows every post made within the month. It’s pretty huge too. The Snowman for the RSS subscribe up near the top is cute.

Mrs Mecomber has included an About page on New York Traveler and it sure is a good one. She writes mostly about topics pertaining to travel (much within the New York area as you might guess from her blog title) and home. Her writing is original and her posts are of terrific length. She often includes pictures. She usually writes from a personal perspective and her personality comes out in her writing. Her blog is an interesting and informative read.

Take a trip over and say hello to the New York Traveler. And please tell her that valmg sent you.