Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, October 17, 2005 is on Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes.
His first two points cover one of my pet peeves — blogs which don’t tell you anything about the author. Then he launches into some sound advice about titles, links and highlighting important postings.
[Via Boing Boing.]
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