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A few months ago I posted on the 3 fundamental skills of web writing. I re-read that post and realized it needed a real life example to truly be useful. So let's recap.
Writing for the web is different because people read differently on the web. In fact, they don't read but they scan, so everything …

Jakob Nielsen's on a roll. The usability Guru recently came out with the Top 10 web design mistakes (I wrote a post on the top 3), and now he's just published the top 10 weblog design mistakes. I thought it would be interesting to test this blog against his list. So no holds barred, here …

The usability guru Jakob Nielsen comes out with a list of 10 web design mistakes every couple of years. Here's the top 3 for this year (2005):
1. Legibility Problems
Most complaints were about small font sizes or frozen font sizes (which you cannot alter using a browser's Text Size command). This one really surprised me, and …