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Andrew Cameron
I've written some sites in my time. I've written good sites, and I've
written very very bad sites. I have never, in the 8 years I'd had HTML as a
hobby, written a site as unreadable and badly-designed as "usability guru"
Jakob Nielsen's useit.com.
He makes some very good points in his articles, and they make a good read,
but I have seriously resorted to copying and pasting the text into Notepad
to prevent my eyes from bleeding. His site may indeed be one of the most
Lynx-friendly on the web, or very good with speech browsers, but it is the
most ugly, too. A big problem is his 100% width... oh, look, TABLE which
means that we get line lengths of a tiresome nature. This table "layout"
also brings us the navbar, which doesn't let us really navigate anywhere.
No page has the same links as another page - this makes the site confusing.
As I mentioned above, he uses tables for layout, which is less than
semantic. Another case of "do as I say...", I guess.
written very very bad sites. I have never, in the 8 years I'd had HTML as a
hobby, written a site as unreadable and badly-designed as "usability guru"
Jakob Nielsen's useit.com.
He makes some very good points in his articles, and they make a good read,
but I have seriously resorted to copying and pasting the text into Notepad
to prevent my eyes from bleeding. His site may indeed be one of the most
Lynx-friendly on the web, or very good with speech browsers, but it is the
most ugly, too. A big problem is his 100% width... oh, look, TABLE which
means that we get line lengths of a tiresome nature. This table "layout"
also brings us the navbar, which doesn't let us really navigate anywhere.
No page has the same links as another page - this makes the site confusing.
As I mentioned above, he uses tables for layout, which is less than
semantic. Another case of "do as I say...", I guess.