Nima Heydarian dot com

Nima Heydarian is a 24 year old Iranian blogger living and working in the US. He moved to the US in 2002 and is now a student and owns/runs his own business.

His blog typically covers technology, business and personal stuff… a bit like my blog really. Nima is also pretty prolific with his posting and his blog has been around longer than mine, since July 2006 to be exact.

Nima also owns and runs his own company, Timsar Solutions which is an internet consulting company. Nima ordered a review for his personal blog, nimaheydarian.com, so that’s what i’ll be looking at in this post.

The first thing you are most likely to note is his RSS count. That’s the first thing that stood out for me. It’s unfair to rank a blog based on the number of subscribers it has but that’s what people do. If it were me, i’d probably try and hide that subscriber count until it rose to 50+.

Secondly, there is no archives page or drop down widget. A big no-no. When writing this review i wanted to find out when the blog started but i could only do that manually going back page by page (and that’s a lot of pages!). So old content is effectively burried once it leaves the homepage.

It’s a big problem for blogs and bloggers (trying to keep good content alive on the site) and i’d suggest adding popular articles or random articles or even just an archives page… anything that may keep people on the site. If you’ve got it, flaunt it

There’s nothing wrong with the design / theme or header… it’s very simple, but very effective. There are a few things i’d change though… Two square 250 x 250 ads clutters up the blog slightly and if it were me, i’d remove one. I’d also remove the ’subscribe to my rss’ button / image before every post plus i’d remove the digg buttons and only show the digg buttons when an article is actually ‘digg worthy’.

Content-wise, Nima’s blog is actually pretty interesting and i’m surprised he doesn’t have a larger readership. I was particularly interested in this post as i was thinking of going 64 bit myself, but i just might hold back a bit longer. For the record, 32 bit systems are physically limited to 4gb of RAM - it’s impossible to use any more whereas 64bit Vista as far as i know can support up to 128gb (not on the home editions) or more commonly, 8gb on the home editions.

Nima has also highlighted why he set up his own business and the hoops he went through to do it. Interesting stuff. I also enjoyed his Iran pictures and posts… they’re personal, unique and something which not many bloggers can write about… Nima’s background is definitely a ’selling point’ for his blog and makes his blog that little bit more interesting.

Be sure to check it out!