Comments on Weird Soda Review: Sprecher Ravin' Red

Excellent suggestions, Cameron, and I thank you fo...

2009-04-02T09:37:00.000-07:00

Excellent suggestions, Cameron, and I thank you for them.
These sodas are all consumed cold, but you're entirely correct that some of them change significantly as they warm up. Perhaps I can work out a methodical way of assessing that in the future.
I'm still working on optimizing the layout. I wasn't sure which features people reading the blog would find most useful, so your input is very helpful; I'll probably be revising it soon. Issues like that and the inconsistent text sizes arise partially from my inexperience with web programming, a situation I am trying to remedy. Thanks for the helpful links!

I plan to start adding pictures soon, but I will try to not have them replace anything interesting.

Another thought: custom favicons rock. This sound...

2009-04-01T21:58:00.000-07:00

Another thought: custom favicons rock.

This sounds like an easy way to go about adding one. If you speak French (or can guess at the things you need to know), this walkthrough will probably work too.

I briefly glanced at this site a few weeks ago but...

2009-04-01T21:21:00.000-07:00

I briefly glanced at this site a few weeks ago but headed back today only to end up reading though the entire archive of posts. Great stuff.

I was wondering a little bit about methodology. I'm mostly curious about temperature. Are any of these good at higher temperatures? Cold can dull the flavor experience, and I couldn't help but to wonder how some of these would taste under differing circumstances.

As I was browsing the site, a few non-soda thoughts came to mind. They might be mildly helpful.

First, I would strongly encourage you to try and reorganize the righthand column. The combination of the post archive along with the large list of tags obscure helpful portions of the column such as the 'Guide to Reviews' and 'Weird Soda Sources' which are forced to the bottom of the page. Oddly this is less of an issue than it was a few hours ago as you've now posted review in April which collapsed the expansive list of March posts. I'd still suggest juggling the order of that column, however.

Though it's meaningless, I thought that I'd note that the font size of the number of hits is quite a bit smaller than the text explaining the number.

Pictures of the sodas themselves might be a nice addition, though I must admit I really enjoy the verbal descriptions. I was enthralled by the vivid word picture created in your review of "Dry Soda Co. Soda: Rhubarb". It'd be a shame to loose imagery like that for the sake a pathetic picture.

Copy and paste might work well enough in Blogger as a means to get specialized but low frequency Spanish characters like é and ñ into reviews.

Doing a quick and dirty parody of The Raven, that’...

2009-04-01T16:49:00.000-07:00

Doing a quick and dirty parody of The Raven, that’s nice.

Rhyming “sore” with “H2SO4″, that’s above and beyond.