Is Your Web Site Too Hard?
Take the “Easy Test” to see if your website is as visitor friendly as it should be! Websites often fail to produce the desired results. This can be because visitors find them too hard to understand or navigate. Here are some potential usability problems to avoid...
Type : Website Usability
Level : Beginner
Added : Mar 04, 2005
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Building your website for visitors
There are numerous articles and sites that advise on how to improve websites for search engine optimisation. SEO is, of course, vital for increasing the number of visitors to a website. However, never forget that it is visitors that turn into customers and make the money...
Type : Website Usability
Level : Beginner
Added : Mar 04, 2005
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Usability Myths Need Reality Checks
Not so very long ago, it was agreed that five to eight users was enough for a good usability test. Somehow, this idea achieved mythic status. We believed it. We preached it to everyone who would listen. It survived in areas where it had been disproved, and was introduced into new situations...
Type : Website Usability
Level : All levels
Added : Dec 10, 2004
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Website Navigation: The Shopping Mall Analogy
Your website's navigation tools and techniques should basically give users the answer to three questions:
Where am I?
Where have I been? and
Where can I go?
Type : Website Usability
Level : Beginner
Added : Dec 10, 2004
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Tell Site Visitors What To Do
Your site visitors make all the choices when it comes to browsing the Web. No other medium gives users, readers or customers such control over their own experience. TV, radio and print present information in a very linear, controlled way...
Type : Website Usability
Level : All levels
Added : Dec 10, 2004
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Triggerwords That Create Click Confidence
A few years back, we conducted one of the most painful usability studies in the history of our research. We learned some really important things, but I'm not sure the users in that study will ever forgive us...
Type : Website Usability
Level : All levels
Added : Dec 09, 2004
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Site Design: Think The Way Your Customer Thinks
One of the biggest challenges an organization faces is to stop thinking it's the center of the universe. Customers think that they are the center of the universe. Customers come to your website to get their needs fulfilled. They will only think you are great if you meet their needs...
Type : Website Usability
Level : All levels
Added : Dec 09, 2004
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Design Your Site Around The Buying Process
"Stuckitis," for those unfamiliar with the term, refers to the condition of being "stuck." That's the condition that results when visitors encounter difficulties on your site or lack enough information to move ahead with their purchase...
Type : Website Usability
Level : All levels
Added : Dec 09, 2004
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Increase Your Web Sales With Better Site Readability
If the language used on your web site is over the head of the average eighth grader, you're probably losing traffic and sales. This is not to say that your site's visitors are stupid, but they are easily bored and they have plenty of other options. Sites that are loaded with jargon or technical in...
Type : Website Usability
Level : Beginner
Added : Dec 07, 2004
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Good Web Design: The Importance Of Navigation
A well-designed website has many facets: gorgeous graphics, cool animations, drop-down menus, and of course, relevant content. Another important feature, often overlooked, is a good, solid navigation scheme.
Type : Website Usability
Level : Beginner
Added : Nov 29, 2004
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