Jakob Nielsen's article about navigation was useful. It made me realize that if I want my side links to be useful I have to be sure they stand out, which I'm trying to do with the colorful logos and rollover links. His other article on putting the most important content up front wasn't all that new, the inverted pyramid and copy editing both teach a journalist that early on.

Myndy McAdams and Dmitry's sites give good tips on the physical look of the site, but not enough about the style and layout. Color and font size are well and good, but how should the site really be structured.

The link to Web pages that suck is useful only so as not to make similar mistakes, but doesn't go into real detail about how to improve your own site.

All together, the sites all had useful information on text specifics and color combinations, but only Nielsen talks about how to organize a website and actually uses his own advice. The other sites use links and and monotype while telling you never to do the same. Nielsen, on the other hand, talks about being simple and direct, then gives use a ten point, large print, straight-forward page of advice. I found him the most useful.