Just found this. As a few people have been asking about site design and user preference etc. this may be of help in some way. The listings are a little old now, but principles are usually the same year after year. Essentially it's a site that gets a few 'experts' to review the big name sites lile ABC News and Microsoft and report on the good, the bad, and the ugly.

http://www.iw.com/print/decon/index.html

Some of it is pretty pompous and short sighted but in general it's pretty good. A lot of time is spent on navigation and usability, as well as content, so remains a pretty valuable resource :)

Greg Moore
http://www.akashik.net

This is awesome!! Pretty interesting and really helpful! :) Thanx

great site, thanks :)