Well to be perfectly honest I just reviewed a site that uses this theme, which I suppose says at least a little about this design (not necessarily as an indictment of using a theme, but rather in terms of there being similar issues and/or benefits). The difference is that the color scheme is red, but with blue links and teaser titles are smaller, which is actually a good thing as it ensures that the alignment between teaser blocks is kept.

Other than that pretty much the same issues persist. From the minor one at the bottom of the sidebar where two blocks are displayed side by side causing what seems to be unnecessary clutter (since the categories block is almost empty) to the rather serious issue of teaser images displaying as broken links, that is, missing images causing a blow to site's professional appeal. There is also no pager at the bottom of the homepage that would ease faster browsing of available articles.

Aside from that the article pages are sometimes disrupted by two square ads which sometimes stand on top of each other. And speaking of ads, their color style could be edited to better match the scheme of the site. Currently the in-content square ads seem to use just the default color scheme and the skyscraper in the sidebar uses a black one, yet the links of the site are darker blue.

Design Rating: 6/10

Focus:

What's the focus of this site? "What Does X Stand For?"

The answer is indeed within the question which happens to be the entire name of the site and reflects the format of all articles published on it. It is another example of a site with a strong axis between its name and its article titles communicating a strong focus. I still think, if anything then for the sake of redundancy, that a nice about page welcoming people to the site and explicitly saying what kinds of "X" may it cover since some are acronym's, some words and some are terms.

That said, X's covered come from a variety of areas, from technology to politics to culture.

Focus Rating: 10/10

Content:

Before going any further it may be worth noting that the first among the most popular posts displayed in the sidebar is actually a test post with all-caps title and a filler "lorem ipsum" content. Needless to say this should be removed.

That said, content of WhatDoesXStandsFor.com includes nearly one hundred articles explaining the meaning of various terms and acronyms, not just stating what they stand for, but also explaining quite a bit more about what the term represents including such information as its properties, history and so on. For those who aren't interested in the details and are just wondering what the term or acronym is, the basic info is usually provided at the beginning of the article.

Perhaps that could be made a little more explicit by simply including a line of bold text simply saying something like "WD-40 stands for 'Water Displacement 40th attempt'" before the article. This would help all the skimmers and those who wish to find out more can read the article.

Content Rating: 9/10