At first glance, I thought technoNix was a blog using one of several blogging platforms. Upon closer scrutiny, I found out it was a complete content management system (CMS).

What is "technoNix" all about?

The answer to this question required that I look around a bit. Not all technology-related websites are alike. I looked for what this website focused on and I found it in the forums: Software, hardware, gaming, mobile technologies, and other Internet-related technologies.

The focus seems to be more on the forums than the blog portion of the CMS.

Site Design

Not being familiar with the e107 CMS, I don't know how much of the design is customized and how much comes straight out of the box, so to speak. I do know one thing. Moving objects in the sidebar are virtual targets for my virtual sights. What I mean to say is that they're annoying and they're an annoying part of Reshadat's sidebar. I'm sorry, but the latest forum topics are not important enough to be in the sidebar and displayed on all of the blog pages.

I always look for an "about" page, even on non-blog websites. I couldn't find one here.

Article and Post Content

While browsing through the news archive, I chanced upon "XP is Faster Than VISTA", stopped what I was doing, closed all my open windows and then went through the process of updating my Windows XP installation with service pack 3. It was the one thing I overlooked the last time I cleaned the clutter from my PC.

I didn't dig any deeper for anything else because that one cost me more than 2 hours on my crappy DSL connection. I have other things to do, like eat.

My Overall Opinion

Reshadat's website is old enough that it should be drawing a lot of traffic. I can't tell how well it's doing because the PageRank is sitting at 0 and the Alexa rank is at 932,813. The rankings should be much better for a tech-oriented website. Either his website got slapped by Google or the CMS isn't as SEO-friendly as it should be.

The website is interesting, even if most of the topics aren't personally interesting for me. I'm not a gamer and some of the tech stuff talked about isn't available locally here in the Philippines at a reasonable price, if at all. An iPhone, for example, is useless here.

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