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It has been a while since I've spent the whole weekend in Haarlem. Last week I was in New York, the weeks before that Leeuwarden, Frankfurt, Broekhuizen, Center Parcs... quite some traveling!
This weekend there is time to do some of the small things that I wanted to do for a while. I spent the afternoon in the city, buying smaller stuff like new soil for the plants in the house.
I also bought three books! One for my work: Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen, an expert in website usability and design. I hope that I can apply some of the knowledge to my new website design. I bought the book second-hand, which I'm quite satisfied with. It's the original (English) edition, and it was € 25,00. Later I saw the Dutch translation in a bookshop for over € 55,00.
The two other books that I bought are related to the German language course that starts Monday. The first is a book to train German vocabulary that I've used in high school, "Duits examenidioom voor 4, 5, 6 vwo". The second German book is a novel: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, one of the German writers I liked the best.
When I came home the computers were off (including this website's server), there must have been a short power outage.
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Jakob Nielsen an expert?
He is only an expert to a limited number of web designers.
I hear very different stories about his authority.
Good luck with your German course.
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Yeah -- I know, Nielsen has some controversial ideas. My biggest critic is the fact that he seems to ignore beauty (of websites) too much -- his own website is rather ugly I think.
It's just one of the sources I'll use though, and his book does have a lot of useful idea's and information.
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Jakob is know for his 'functional' website, he doesn't care about design.
In fact there are some interesting points he makes in his book.
But like any other book you should only use the interesting parts of it.