Was immediately put off by the awful design of the website. Why does someone put irrelevant links on the left half of a web page forcing a visitor to scroll to the right? Very annoying.

The reason why PG's essays rock is not just that they are insightful but also that the content is well placed to the left of the page with minimal and unobtrusive links on the left border.

The title of this article should read "How not to design a website"