After raving about Steve Krug's book, Don't Make Me Think, and just now visiting the legendary Jakob Nielsen's website, it seemed only appropriate to give a shout-out to Nielsen, the man who laid out the first good map of web usability and design.

His book, Homepage Usability, has had me engrossed for days, and offers many more weeks of enjoyable, instructive learning, as Nielsen deconstructs 50 major websites, showing where they're good, bad, and downright ugly.

I love it. Sure, I'm enjoying the book even more having scored almost a perfect result on Nielsen's website usability test, but I'm still learning tons from him.

Along with Krug's book, I can't imagine a better pair of resources to help you if have any plans for a blog, a business site, or anything internet-related.

What's worth the price of the books all by itself is your instant ability, on using a website, to see how it's fucked up and could easily be made far better with very little effort.

Pity most people will never know why things just didn't work out for them online.