Well, the going is slow on turning this site into something better, and unfortunately, the development and design have made it hard to do any writing. Hopefully I can finish getting things straightened out this weekend.
Also, I got my first comment spam yesterday. Either that, or somebody thought that the correct response to my article on Jakob Nielsen was to offer us all some penis enlargement pills. I would have let it stay, but Adam Kalsey says that will just draw more of the same to the site. Oh, and if you’re really curious, go ahead and buy some pills and let the rest of us know how well they work.
Bob Sawyer has started a contest to redesign Jakob Nielsen’s web page. The contest now includes prizes, and is being judged by some serious web design luminaries.
Which is all well and good. But so far the discussion is mostly unprovoked attacks on Jakob himself. His detractors don’t seem to understand that Jakob isn’t a visual designer or that his musings are given with the same gadfly sensibilities that have made other people so popular.
In other words, lay off Jakob. No, he can’t design his way out of a paper bag, but I know I’ve benefitted from his experience. In fact, the one thing I’ve found that people who criticize Jakob have in common is hard-to-use web pages.