This week I’ve been involved in some interesting discussions on website design so I thought I’d pass along a couple links to some interesting information if you’re involved in a web project. Thanks to a link I found on Paul Conley’s blog you can read some very interesting research on a Poynter Institute study called Eyetrack III. This was research about news sites which was done with 46 people. Lots of good stuff in here. This is from Paul’s post called “The Ugly Truth About Ugly Sites.”
Of course you can check out Jakob Nielsen and his Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design.
And I like Steve Krug and his book “Don’t Make Me Think,” which is now in its second edition. This little book won’t take long to read and it all just makes sense.
It’s never easy to put yourself in your visitor’s shoes and see your site from their eyes but resources like these help. Of course you should also consider getting the opinion of other people and not be afraid to hear what they have to say!
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In just over a week I’ll be living out of a little room at the Coliseum in the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI blogging 
The National Association of Farm Broadcasters is gettin’ jiggy with their 2005 Annual Meeting invites! I just got my second one via email and like the other one, it contains audio. Imagine a mostly radio group using audio. Maybe that new E-D has got some new ideas?
If you’ve ever been to the Westin Crown Plaza in KC, MO then you might have had this guy open your door and welcome you. Thanks to the NAFB office you can “hear” him invite you to their annual meeting. Listen to Tall Paul here: 
Baxter Black doesn’t own a cell phone or television. He gets his information like all REAL cowboys do – from his local Farm Broadcaster! Come see the man described by the New York Times as “…probably the nation’s most successful living poet.” He thinks it’s an exaggeration, you be the judge. You can listen to Baxter here: 
There’s no way to write about all the festivals that take place around the country but how many send out releases on 
Just so you can compare the two. Here’s what the “old” logo looked like. It looks like they’ve got some good in-house talent so why not put them to work?