Of course, that doesn’t really help the problem much – you guys are really the ones who should hear (or read) my rant. That’s why I’m pasting it here.

I’m no usability expert, but I still have something to say. Aside from the fact that there is no deadline or nomination schedule listed on the site, I just found one big problem with the nomination process.

It asks a few too many questions.

Yes, I know they’d like to automate most of the processes, but most readers might not be savvy enough to know when a blog started, or even what the email address of the blogger is.

Take for example, what a regular (i.e. not really a techie) user will have to go through to nominate Technogra.ph for the awards:
- Click on the Monthly Archives for November 2007 and click on the previous link several times to find the first post. This gives a rough idea of when the blog was established.
- Wonder who in the world writes for Technogra.ph when there are no author profiles immediately available. At this point many might give up and decide not to nominate Technogra.ph anymore.
- On top of this, wonder what email to put on the nomination form. Technogra.ph has a contact form – that way you don’t have to reveal your email address to the world. Even if the user did know the address, they would still wonder… what in the world gives them the right to submit somebody else’s email address to another site? At this point, many users will either not care and submit anyway, or not bother to nominate.
- If they still care, they might look for an email address or a contact form on the PBA site, fail to find one, then decide to rant on another site (that has posted something about the said nomination process) about how difficult it is to nominate a blog.

my friends and i have tried filling out the forms and it’s giving us the same error “This field requires a unique entry and this value has already been used.” what could be wrong? we’re all using the same computer btw. thanks.