Blog design mistakes
October 19th, 2005 
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Weblog usability: Top 10 design mistakes by Jakob Nielsen of UsetIt.com
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
Darren Rowse of Problogger.net adds another one to the list:
11. No Contact Details
Will the defendant please rise! …….. How do you plead?
1. guilty
2. guilty
3. not guilty (I hope)
4. sometimes guilty
5. guilty
6. there is no calendar! 
7. guilty
8. guilty
9. probably guilty
10. guilty (kind of)
11. guilty
The conclusion – this blog is deeply flawed from a usability perspective I guess we’re slowly working on that.
