reaction: How users read on the web

After viewing Jakob Nielsen's "How Users Read on hte Web, I feel that the greatist flaw in usibility/design/web writing is that the sites that posses this information very offten do not take the time to follow thire own advice or make thire site something decent to look at. I found this site hard to read, I got lost in the scentence I was reading because it was too long and the words too big, the 'highlighted' phrases and words I found distracting and hindered my ability to follow the pharagraph. the table that was set up was poorly designed-words did not have enugh space to breath and were too close to the box boarders. as far as content, it was kinda basic, maybe to me just because I've heard it before in another class. It is a good reminder when designing a web site with lots of information or content to keep these things in mind, I know when im looking at a sight I really never read pharagraphs unless I know for sure im going to read what I am looking for. and I always appriceiat buileted or numbered lists when dealing with more than 3 eliments consecutivly.

The pod cast with Richard Curtis I found interesting. I like how the 'nations newspaper' was really made for the nation, they did reserch about what the population really wanted in a newspaper and did it. It started in 1982 and really hasn't changed too much since then accourting to Curtis. I found it interesting that he basied his designe ideas off of the content wich is really design 101, but sometimes is hard to find. I was also impressed with the idea of a full page for adds and leaveing the other pages for the content of hte newspaper wich changed their column count to 7 always insted of it changeing from page to page.

1.22.08

today is the first day of class. 

usability. 

the Xplane site is interesting, they have worked with a lot more people than i would have thought. its a pioneering idea that is kinda 'duh'. of course companies need visuals for their ideas and concepts and products and so forth, i wonder how many other companies have followed suit since then. 

As far as the blog making, pretty strait forward. I was surprised with the limitations of 'look' I could choose from, I would think that would be a big part of the blogging scene, since it appears to me that people blog to represent themselves as individuals with opinions in a great wide world of people and opinions. I did like how easy it was to create and there wasn't major limitations on what your name had to be or pass word. it bothers me when sites want so many characters and then later tell you that some of those characters need to be numbers, then later tell you-you cant have caps or something like that. it gets complicated and hard to remember a password when you haven't really chosen it.