Our favorite usability expert, Jacob Nielsen, has published his top ten design mistakes for blogs. And while Jacob seems off his rocker a lot of the time, he is incredibly lucid when it comes to simple design issues like this. Below is a quick list of the ten – click the above link for the full article.
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– No Author Biographies
– No Author Photo
– Nondescript Posting Titles
– Links Don’t Say Where They Go
– Classic Hits are Buried
– The Calendar is the Only Navigation
– Irregular Publishing Frequency
– Mixing Topics
– Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
– Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service
I think my blog passes all of those except for perhaps the “Irregular Publishing Frequency”. Doh!