Comments on: Top Ten Blog Design Mistakes

By: work from home business blog

work from home business blog — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:21:08 +0000

This post is pretty appropriate for me at this moment as I just migrated to wordpress blog. These tips or reminders are very true and I will use them to make sure I don't commit these mistakes. Thanks for sharing. Work At Home Ideas and Opportunities

By: Top 10 Roundup of the Top Blogging Tips by Charlotte Web Design

Top 10 Roundup of the Top Blogging Tips by Charlotte Web Design — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:18:41 +0000

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By: dandellion

dandellion — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:29:40 +0000

The one absolutely hate is hiding feed link. Believe it or not, some bloggers are putting RSS links on most interesting places, like we play hide-and-seek. E.g. footer, somewhere in the sidebar between ads and blogroll, in a corner of the site…. then they make it very small and without that nice orange square which is to be celebrated as one of rare things standardized all over the net.
And then, after a couple of minutes searchin (no, I won’t notice other details of the page in that time) one may found that there is no link to feed but the one in firefox’ address bar.

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By: Atificial Insemination

Atificial Insemination — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:02:34 +0000

Your post is on target. Keep it up.

By: Medical Answers » Why I do not post my name in this blog.

Medical Answers » Why I do not post my name in this blog. — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:30:40 +0000

[...] My name is not available to the public. You could argue that I am making one of the Ten Blog Design Mistakes, as noted by Problogger. The answer to this is simple: privacy. [...]

By: Jason Toal: blog » 2005’s top 100 top 10 lists (81 and counting)

Jason Toal: blog » 2005’s top 100 top 10 lists (81 and counting) — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:07:38 +0000

[...] The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 … and 3362 other people – The list is debatable, and made my list based on the amount of comments it has received and general buzz. In a related list… Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005 … and 85 other peopleThe Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Weblog Usability) … and 1441 other people – An easy to read list, the real front runner in blog recomendations lists. Some other notables include; Design Mistakes, Blog Reading, and Better blogging [...]

By: Robb D

Robb D — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:32:21 +0000

Looks like I like I have about 50% of this list covered. Including the biggest one of having no way to be contacted less comments. I think that I have some work to do…

By: Sean Fallon

Sean Fallon — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:16:48 +0000

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. It has inspired me to change a few things with my blog – most notably the part about sticking to your niche. Fortunately, my site is extremely young and so this transition will not be too dramatic. I will definitely have to start up some more blogs to handle my varied interests.

By: SA Blog :: Top 10 Blog Design mistakes :: November :: 2005

SA Blog :: Top 10 Blog Design mistakes :: November :: 2005 — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:42:38 +0000

[...] Problogger It’s a pretty insightful list – not definitive by any means – but definitely helpful in my mind. [...]

By: RadioStatic » Radio Static Podcast Show 15 Part 2

RadioStatic » Radio Static Podcast Show 15 Part 2 — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:03:07 +0000

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By: Relaxing day~ at ^||DaReDeviL||^

Relaxing day~ at ^||DaReDeviL||^ — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:20:59 +0000

[...] I’ve read through this site.. Top ten blog design mistakes dun think there’s a lot of things can be corrected in my site..since its just a new site… i need to make a new author page of my own i guess… actually been thinking of it already…wait for it k… // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById(”authorinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(”showinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(”hideinfo”).style.display = “”; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById(”authorinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(”showinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(”hideinfo”).style.display = “none”; } [...]

By: Ari Miraj

Ari Miraj — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:42:57 +0000

hey, can someone go to my blog and find out what is wrong with it. i mean, i cant judge myself, can i?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 03:52:54 +0000

Good writeup you have there on this topic. Sometimes I do realise I make some of the mistakes you mentioned, so by reading again your post, it keeps me right on my track.

By: Blog Design Mistakes | sYp

Blog Design Mistakes | sYp — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:26:01 +0000

[...] Via ProBlogger. Jakob Nielsen wrote an interesting article on the top ten design mistakes. While Jakob has been famous for not applying his own suggestions (useit.com as evidence), he has actually made some very good points in those articles he wrote. [...]

By: pcunix

pcunix — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:02:34 +0000

By the way, I also disagree about the personal stuiff, at least to some extent.

I agree that my readers are not interested in what I had for breakfast (pumpkin pancakes, scrabmbled eggs, turkey sausage, hash browns, oj, coffee – see, you don’t care, do you?), but when personal events and opinions fit into whatever I’m talkiing about, I think it adds personality and therefor interest. Agreed, there’s a line there you don’t want to cross, but being totally devoid of personality is not good either.

By: eMarketing Mark

eMarketing Mark — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:48:12 +0000

Darren,

Couldn’t agree more with your comments. Have written my own analysis from the point of view that my own blog takes from the view of small and medium sized businesses.

You have got to focus in on the readers that you are looking to attract and make sure that you adhere to the goals that you established when you set up your blog in the first place – these will often be to establish credibility, position yourself as an expert and give a personal face to a professional outfit.

Love the blog and look forward to reading more.

Mark

By: pcunix

pcunix — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:57:04 +0000

Re: contact

Some of us, like Zsa Zsa Gabor, just want to be left alone :-)

Seriously. I run a tech blog (among others). I respond to comments and questions posted there, but I do not encourage email. I do have a page where you can find my email, but I very deliberately make it a little bit difficult because if I don’t I get dozens of requests for free help every day. As much as I’d love to be able to afford to give free assistance, I can’t, so I push toward posting the question at my blog and getting an answer there, where other people may benefit and other people may answer.

I have several other blogs where I have no direct contact information at all. They aren’t tech blogs necessarily, but again I don’t want email – each of them has comment sections. If you really, really want to reach me by email, I think most intelligent people could figure out how – and if someone isn’t at least that savvy, well, it’s unlikely I want to talk to them anyway, right?

By: HART

HART — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:34:28 +0000

Dave.. what if you create a new category and add it to the classic posts itself? The category could be called “The Classics” or “My Favorites” or something suitable to your blog. I use random topics on two of my blogs PapillonLvr.com (plugin) and 1800HART.com (manual template script adjustments). Perhaps that is an alternative way? Or, can always do what Darren did in above sidebar – just write about it again and link the article that links it all in the sidebar?

Denise .. ouch. I’m guilty. Although in my defense, my business is “ME” so, I have always thought it was okay to bring in my personal views on life and my hobbies and thinking – because I feel that it shows the outside world what I am made of and my views on life are reflected .. (are they not?) .. in the way I conduct my business. I’m not selling a book or giving tips – my clients are generally long term and deals with personal and confidential information (accounting and income tax). Yes – I have been posting weekly Meme entries on my business blog and some weeks there are no business posts at all, just memes. I posted there because my non-business blog is more like a family/wedding blog – not a “ME” blog .. But, I will move it now that I know it’s irritating to some. Thanks for heads up on that viewpoint.

By: Ben Helps

Ben Helps — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:27:17 +0000

No Contact Details: Oops, guilty – fixed now. I tried to use that online gmail addy image maker, but it seems to be broken (so I just borrowed a blank image from the site and made it myself).

But how much is too much when it comes to contact details? What if you give home and work landlines, mobiles, faxes, emails, postals, and every IM ID under the sun? I suppose it’s more an issue of how much screen real estate to give it.

6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation: Interesting point HART makes. How many of us would probably be quite OK with a Calendar for navigation if we only started using it a bit to train ourselves?

Alas it seems that good ‘ole Blogger doesn’t have an in-built Calendar control.

10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service: Related to this is having your CMS or article database owned by someone else. If you host your blog on your own domain you have access to all the pages, however I wonder how long it would take Darren to build a new database of all his articles, even with the pages?