Nielsen’s Blogging sins
Jacob Nielsen, web usability dude par excellence has put forth his ten theses for a maximally usable blog.
Let’s see how iconoclastic Lavonardo manages to be…
- 1. No Author Biographies
- Got a cv on the site, but no real biography. That counts as half a sin.
- 2. No Author Photo
- On the front page. Oldish, and too jolly summery for the season, but present, definitely. No sin here, vicar.
- 3. Nondescript Posting Titles
- Almost the reverse. Too descript. To the point of non-sequitur. No sin.
- 4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go
- Sometimes they do, sometimes they do not. And the addition of link titles is definitely a good idea. Half a sin, I’d say.
- 5. Classic Hits are Buried
- They are. No “best of #10″ yet. Full sin. Vade Retro!
- 6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
- It is. And it’s broken right now. Another sin. This better not be catching on.
- 7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
- But I like the irregularity. Juggling too many things already is not conducive to having a metronome-class pace. Half a sin (but I refuse to acknowledge it).
- 8. Mixing Topics
- And that’s bad exactly how in a blog? Another sin I refuse to acknowledge, and will continue tilting at.
- 9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
- Nope, nothing incriminating here. The hardest hitting personal business is kept where it should remain - private.
- 10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service
- Nope. Had my own niche of the web since the beginning of the blog.
And that counts as four and a half sins, of which three sins are ones that I intend to rectify. With perl, not a repetition of ave marias.
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