Sort it out russell!
While we are still on the topic of web design, i couldn't help but notice a perfect example of this not too far from home. Whilst looking through the resources page of the HCI website, i was appalled by the poor layout.

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rxb/Teaching/HCI/resources-active.php

Even if you discount the poor, dull colour scheme, the page itself is badly presented. There is an overload of information on the page, which has resulted in the page being overly long. The user is blatantly going to get bored before actually attempting to read everything on the page. I'm sure a lot more people would actually do more extra reading if this page was more attractive and interesting.
Furthermore, it is very easy to get lost in the website hierarchy. I was trying to find my way to the page containing all our blogs to check out what other people have been writing, but finding your way around is a nightmare.
I'm sure this is actually just a clever ploy on Russells part as the only pages i could seem to find where the ones with his portrait and an image of his book.

- posted by Adam @ 6:57 pm