Website review!

Thought id do a quick review on a website ive been using a hell of a lot at the minute! its another user content based website and would have been perfect for the assinment last week but oh well!
The site is sporcle.com by the way! you may have heard of it! pretty much you go on and try out loads of quizes which you have a certain amount f time to finish. its really fun with a couple of mates on the sofa all trying to remember desperately what the 10th pixar film is that you were all certain you'd be able to get a piece of piss 3 minutes ago. the website its self is pretty basic to look at, but everything runs smoothly and its easy enough to create your own quiz for others to try their hands at so i can't see it going anywhere but up from now on!

Thoughts for website...!

I've been trying to think of what I will make a website of and have come up with this list off the top of my head:
-Nottingham Skate park- (arnold bowl/ Maple street park)
-Non-stop skate shop
-My old primary school- kinda ruined when Shaun said it as an idea to everyone! oh well!
-Other shop- maybe backlash (local one not chain shop)
-Arbouretum
-Rock City
-Inside my dads man draw at home
-Old Vicarage (abandoned house in my home village)
-Tuxford School- my old secondary... because it isnt there anymore!
-The progression of my Drum kit!

My favourites are the progression of my drum kit, as a lot has changed with it over the years and will change more over time, skate park, Man draw and my old secondary school. any thoughts on these are very welcome by the way!

3 user content driven websites.

These are my evaluations on three websites which run on content added by the users.
Ratemyink.com
Rate my ink is a website based completely around user added content. There are many other websites which are like this one where predominately you are rating something part of a person or something of theirs. I have used rate my ink a few times to look for any good tattoo designs to build on for my own. The website itself is very very basic looking and not exactly smooth around the edges. There are not many options for the user to keep them interested. You can become a member but all that does is make it so you can view tattoos that are rated as being explicit. Apart from these there are top and bottom ten and a few other links. My opinion of the website is that it is useful to the user but it doesn’t have much to it, especially design wise to keep the user coming back very often.
Blogger
I thought as this website which we have to use to post is all to do with user added content I would evaluate it. Straight off the welcome page is far better than rate my ink. It’s quite a simple design, but very well done with neutral colours. Once you log in it’s more of the same with the nice simplistic layout and design. This makes it very easy to navigate, and never takes very long to find what you want, as all of the buttons are highlighted in blue against the brown background. Because of it looking so nice and being so simple to use from the start, it is a website you end up coming back and using very often, which has got to be one of the main things you aim for when designing a website.
911 Tabs
I have used this website quite a few times to find drum tabs but I know quite a lot of other people who use it for guitar, bass and piano. All of the tabs are added by users for others to try out and alter if they think they’re wrong. There isn’t that much to the website which keeps it simple, however it is still nice to look at and doesn’t look cheaply made like ratemyink. The whole site is very logically set out and therefore easy to use. Over all I very much like the design, and it shows that the designers have thought a lot about how to keep it very simple but classy enough to make you want to go back to this site and not bother finding another tab site.