Improve your blog or website in 10 easy steps

All you have to do is follow the guidelines laid down by Jakob Nielsen here.

But you won't.

It's too easy.

What I like is that major corporations spend millions creating their websites when simply adhering to Nielsen's tenets would enable a far better internet presence — free.

Here are Nielsen's "Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2005":

1) Legibility problems

2) Non–standard links

3) Flash

4) Content that's not written for the web

5) Bad search

6) Browser incompatibility

7) Cumbersome forms

8) No contact information

9) Frozen layouts with fixed page widths

10) Inadequate photo enlargement

Now go to Amazon and buy his book (top) and find out more.

Best $28.35 you'll ever spend.

Trust me, I'm a — oh, you know.