After taking a look at Jakob Nielsen’s Weblog Usability: Top Ten Design Mistakes I decided to make a few changes to the blog.

First, the links at the top now actually do something. Right now they’re just text, but I’m planning on changing them to sIFR in the near future.

Second, I’ve added a picture to the left bar. It seems a little strange to have it there, and there aren’t many other weblogs with pictures like that, so I may take it away or move it to the bottom, but for now there it is.

Lastly, I’m going to start making use of the “titles” attribute for my links, so that if you hover over the link, you can see a little bit more information about it before you click.

I think I follow most of his other rules.

Separately, I’ve added two more photos to the site. One is from a trip a while ago to Mount Rainier and the other is from our recent trip to Kauai.

Related posts:

1. Not so much with the updates
2. The New Site Design (continued)