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.

Editor's Pick in Website Usability, July 2005
Is your web page viewable in both Internet Explorer and Firefox? If not, you should consider making your web page XHTML transitional. Here's how.

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...

One of the big dilemmas when designing a website can be whether or not to use flash. In this article I'm going to go over the goods and the bads in hopes to help you make an educated decision. For those of you that are thinking "What is flash?" it's basically animation on your website. Our me...

Josiah discusses the the question that irritates webmasters everywhere and could be the key to your site's success. Indeed society today demands everything be bigger, faster, brighter and just plain "spiffy". But what does a consumer want? Do they want clean, us...

Editor's Pick in Design Principles, April 2005
Need to ensure that your website is accessible? Let Alan Cole teach you how to avoid dependence on particular hardware and software.

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?

Editor's Pick in Website Usability, April 2005
Have you ever sat down and really spent some time surfing through your own company website? Are there any broken links? Are you happy with the functionality and the graphical interface? Is it easy to navigate and find the services...

Ever visited a site and wondered "what am I supposed to do?" Ever got lost in someone else's tangled web?

Effective navigation stands out. It's clear, obvious, and highly visible. You'll need to have a clear section of the page designated for navigation--one that a visitor will immediately recognize as the navigation area when he arrives at the site. Navigation should not necessarily be the prime f.....