{"id":241,"date":"2009-09-12T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T11:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2015-09-17T19:20:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T19:20:58","slug":"study-successful-blog-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/12\/study-successful-blog-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Successful blog reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study Successful is a blog where you can get information on \u201chow to be a successful student\u201d.\u00a0 Aside from having personal development articles like \u201cHow to Make a Good College Start\u201c, the blog also features articles on other topics concerning students, like how the Credit Card Act impacts students.\u201d\u00a0 The site is written by a student named Stefan Knapen, a soon-to-be Medicine student at the University of Groningen, in Netherlands.\u00a0 Overall, the Study Successful blog is well-done, especially considering the fact that there is only one person authoring all of the blog entries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Successes of Study Successful<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If there is one thing that Study Successful is doing well, it has to be the selection of topics.\u00a0 Many of the blogs that focus on self-help student hacks go off in all sorts of tangents, with blog entries on just about anything under the sun.\u00a0 The great thing about Study Successful is that the author chooses his topics well.\u00a0 The topics are relevant, fresh, and useful.\u00a0 Furthermore, even though the author\u2019s target audience is students, the way the articles are written make them useful for just about anyone who reads them.\u00a0 Study Successful also succeeds at avoiding the clutter (like tags, long category lists, or other irrelevant information) that many other blogs have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paving a road to better success<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Study Successful is a good start and it looks to have a lot of potential.\u00a0 Some improvements that I suggest for Study Successful include:<br \/>\n1.\u00a0 Fixing the issue with the mis-aligned blog titles.\u00a0 The blog titles, tweet boxes, and posting dates are aligned to the right side and they overlap with the links from the previous blog post.\u00a0 This makes it confusing and difficult to read.<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 The blog can branch out and produce more blog entries with a multi-author approach.\u00a0 Although the single-author approach has its benefits, I think that it will be difficult to keep creating blog entries as a single author, especially considering the fact that Stefan is starting Medicine soon.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0 Give the site a design theme.\u00a0 Although the simplicity of the layout looks nice, I think that it is just too blank.\u00a0 It would also help to improve the layout to make the site more convenient and easy to navigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Successful is a blog where you can get information on \u201chow to be a successful student\u201d.\u00a0 Aside from having personal development articles like \u201cHow to Make a Good College Start\u201c, the blog also features articles on other topics concerning students, like how the Credit Card Act impacts students.\u201d\u00a0 The site is written by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-blog-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}