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Who's this guy, Jakob Nielsen, anyway, and what gives him the
right to make those assumptions?

Just because he has a PhD does not give him carte-blanche on
what may or may not be right or wrong on web pages. For
example, having "standard link colors" of underlined blue text is
both boring and antiquated. The next thing he'll be saying is that
the use of any font other than Times New Roman is one of the
"mistakes".

I would also not take too much notice since this man's HTML
coding is sloppy (and that's being kind).

On 3 May 99, at 14:07, Diane K. Kovacs wrote about Top 10 Mistakes revisited:

> Forwarded with permission
> >
> >Jakob Nielsen's www.useit.com web site has been mentioned very favorably
> >a few times recently.  Old timers may remember Nielsen's article from
> >wa-a-ay back in 1996, "Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design"
> ><URL:http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html>.
> >
> >Nielsen has now updated this document, at
> ><URL:http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990502.html>.  IMO, both documents
> >should be required reading.  It's definitely worth taking a few minutes
> >looking at your site and considering it in the light of:
> >
> >1. Frames
> >2. Bleeding-edge technology
> >3. Scrolling text and looping animations
> >4. Complex URLs
> >5. Orphan pages
> >6. Scrolling navigation pages
> >7. Lack of navigation support
> >8. Non-standard link colors
> >9. Outdated information
> >10. Slow download times
> >
> >And now, back to the Dr. Laura thread, which is already in progress.
> >
> >
> >Thomas Dowling
> >OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> >tdowling@ohiolink.edu
> >
>
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And just for a laugh:

Microsoft announced today that the official release date
for the new operating system "Windows 2000" will be
delayed until the second quarter of 1901 due to an
unexpected Y2K bug.