Rustic Girls
Sisters are doin’ it for themselves - it is not a Spice Grils song, but a philosophy for a lot of Girls. The typical jokes about men never asking for directions is what Rustic Girls is all about - they have a whole lot of articles with useful info so that Girls CAN do it for themselves!
The website is what I would call Rustic - as it has that distinctive 1999 look and feel to it. It is very minimilaistic. Now, this is not a bad thing in this case - as what the site is all about is providing useful and quality content. As the content is useful, then the desgin can be olde worlde and you still have a useful site. It could do with a little bit of work on the navigation to make the site easier to use - but what site couldn’t do with further additions and improvements?
The Articles are mostly about DIY & Home Improvement and are written is a way that is easy to read and understand. They cover such broad areas such as Inside your home, Outside your home and Yard & Garden. I am telling you, that even though the target Audience for the Articles are Women, there is a lot of uselful info for the handyman as well (only if he would bother to read the instructions).
A random article from the front page - I selected Solar power for home and Garden. The article was about 2 screens long for me and broken up into paragraphs with Bold headings. The info was all relevent to the topic, presented in a way that is easy to read on-screen and would probably print out just fine as well. The default text size is a good size - not real small like some sites. All of the articles are of a similar format except where a topic contains a lot of info. in these cases, they are broken up into more than 1 page which does make it easier to sit down and actually read.
As we said, the main focus are the DIY Articles and info, but on the homepage of the site there are also other general lifestyle/home hints type of info. So, go on Girls, read up and you might just surprise yourself to find out how easy some of this stuff is!
Visit www.rusticgirls.com
