Weblog Usability

If you are - like me - about to write a blog application then this piece of writing summarizes and comments prevalent blog features and their usability account.

Jakob Nielsen is cited as "the guru of web page usability" (The New York Times), "the king of usability" (Internet Magazine) and "the world's leading expert on Web usability" (U.S. News & World Report) among others. His bio adds up more to the same round dance. Visit his own site at http://www.useit.com/ and see if it lives up to its standards.

Design is about taste and elegance and usability, even more true for web pages that someone has to look at, read and ... use. Make your visitors feel good. Tell him, that you care about straightforwardness by easing his experience on the site. At least try to. Don't alienate him with hard to use ugly pages. In the end a bad site is an insult.