Jakob Neilson’s Alertbox for Oct 3rd 2005 - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
1. Legibility Problems
2. Non-Standard Links
3. Flash
4. Content That’s Not Written for the Web
5. Bad Search
6. Browser Incompatibility
7. Cumbersome Forms
8. No Contact Information or Other Company Info
9. Frozen Layouts with Fixed Page Widths
10. Inadequate Photo Enlargement
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This some interesting analysis…. a study from Greg Edwards of Eyetools.com.
For those unfamilar with Eyetools, the company specialises in website usability studies based on direct, real-time tracking of a user’s eyeball movements as they interact with a site.
It definately makes me think twice about usability!
CSS Zen Garden — an Eyetools eyetracking analysis

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Interesting article about how users completely ignore your hard planned navigation elements to get right to the gusto - with a few navigation concepts from Nielsen and Hurst. Good Read
Navigation Blindness

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I run across so many different links everyday and I soon forget them, or my bookmarks get overwhelming - so just cause’ it is MUCH easier this way, here is a link list on “Web Standards”:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/standards-sensible-design
http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000266.php
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.cfm
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/Web-Quality
http://www.maccaws.org/kit/way-forward/
http://webstandardsgroup.org/standards/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040913.html

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