Jakob Nielsen Provides Tips on Parenting
Are you looking for tips on parenting? If you are, you’re in luck. It seems that Jakob Nielsen has put together a web site for parents.
Well, maybe Jakob didn’t literally put together this web site. Perhaps he did not write the helpful articles. Maybe it’s not even his site at all.
However…
I think it’s really interesting that this relatively new site is so plain and simple. It’s as if Jakob Nielsen was speaking in the ear of the person putting the site together: “Create an extremely simple web site that provides tips on parenting. Make it deadly easy to use.”
If you think that the days of simple web sites have come and gone, you are mistaken. As Tips on Parenting clearly indicates, these unassuming web sites are still popping up all the time. People are just cranking out simple web sites with great information.
Let’s be realistic. A site with tips for parents really just needs one thing: great content. It doesn’t need fancy graphics, Flash animation, Ajax navigation, or even an RSS feed. Sure, those things might be fun, but they aren’t necessary.
In fact, I argue that the Jakob Nielsen inspired “tips on parenting” provides better return on investment than other sites with bells and whistles. The reason is that someone could crank out two sites like Tips on Parenting in the time it takes to build one fancy site. Speed is money.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:25 am
This isn’t anything to do with Jakob at all. Its following a bunch of design guidelines that originally came from direct mail spam.
I used to churn out loads of sites like this for one of the companies I used to work for. Everything from dodgy get rich quick schemes to alien conspiracies with “click here to download e-book for only $30.00″. All this site is doing is selling the e-book, the rest of the content is probably cut and pasted from a real parenting site.
Design wise its all about minimizing whitespace and someone heard once that monospaced type is easier to read so that it. Very paper 1.0.
And as for speed I think my record was producing 4 sites at 7 or 8 pages apiece with graphics, php and the like in a day… once you get into the swing of things its easy.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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