Welcome to the blog of Can Sar, a Stanford CS major. This blog is made up of my thoughts on Computer Science and the computer industry, as well as ever exciting tales from my life.
I just watched a CS 547 talk by the author of Web Bloopers, Jeff Johnson on (not too surprisingly) Web Bloopers. The talk was very interesting, and Johnson went over a lot of common problems with many commercial websites. The talk itself is publicly available, and I encourage any professional web designer to watch it.
Unfortunately, for people trying to design their own site, their is very little important information. My objective in watching it was to find out things I should pay attention to when redesigning the blog, but unfortunately did not find too much. There should be a serious look at weblog design, because the medium is starting to become very different from general websites. On the other hand, many weblogs try to be different, rather than simply easy to use. I am quite sure that Phil's website is the best example for this.