Will’s Blog

I noticed on Memeorandum that Jakob Nielson posted a new article on Weblog Usability.

Here’s a summary of what he says are usability issues of weblogs (The Top Ten Design Mistakes):
1. No Author Biographies
2. No Author Photo
3. Nondescript Posting Titles
4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go
5. Classic Hits are Buried
6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
8. Mixing Topics
9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service

Some interesting topics in there.

Let’s see, I don’t do number 2. And number 3 happens at times. I try not to do number 4.
Number 5 is an interesting idea. Number 7 happens here quite often (As in, irregular posting pattern).

I’m unsure about number 8. I think if you want to write on more than one topic, just create more specific categories to cover those interests of yours.

I think number 9 is also very very important. Especially in the current age of powerful search engines and the caching of the web. Just look at websites such as web.archive.org which basically, caches things on the web Let’s not forget, there’s numerous other services out there that do web and more specifically blog caching.

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