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Hub You - Web Usability: The Basics
There are various advertising programs for website publishers that allow to place ads on your site. These programs then pay you for every click to the ad or per thousand impression. I will list the current popular programs.Google AdSense - Currently one of the most popular advertising programs on the net. Probably best for when your site starts to get big and generate more traffic.Pros - Easy to set up, high paying, targeted ads, professional Cons - $100 minim
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Did you notice that images were left out of that list? Contrary to the way in which we read printed matter, we see text before we see images on the Internet. For optimal website usability don't place important information in images as it might go unnoticed.
Restrictions must not be placed on users
Don't prevent your users from navigating through the Internet in the way that they want to. For example:
1. Every time a link is opened in a new window the back
The debt collection act is a federal law and is concerned with regulating the practises of those who regularly collect debt on behalf of others. It is now common and has been adopted in many States.So just what does the debt collection act say a debt collector can and cannot do in the execution of his duties.he cannot contact at inconvenient hours but he can call in person or by telephone or telegram or mail at times considered as generally acceptable as conven
Web usability is about making your website in such a way that your site users can find what they're looking for quickly and efficiently. A usable website can reap huge benefits on to your website and your business.
* Every ?1 invested in improving your website's usability returns ?10 to ?100 (source: IBM)
* A web usability redesign can increase the sales/conversion rate by 100% (source: Jakob Nielson)
Your website has to be easy to navigate
Users have gradually become accustomed to particular layouts and phrases on the Internet, for example:
* Organisation logo is in the top-left corner and links back to the homepage
* The term ‘About us’ is used for organisation information
* Navigation is in the same place on each page and adjacent to the content
* Anything flashing or placed above the top logo is often an advertisement
* The term ‘Shopping cart’ is used for items you might wish to purchase
There are numerous other conventions like these that enhance your website's usability - can you think of some more?
Don't underestimate the importance of these conventions - as the Internet matures we're getting more and more used to things being a certain way. Break these conventions and you may be left with nothing but a website with poor usability and a handful of dissatisfied site visitors.
Pages must download quickly
Usability studies have shown that 8.6 seconds is the maximum time web users will wait for a page to download (source: Andrew B. King - Speed Up Your Site). As of March 2004 just 25% of UK web users had broadband (source: UK National Statistics) so it's essential for optimal usability that your website downloads quickly.
To speed up the download time of your website we recommend you do three things:
* Use CSS and not tables to lay out your web page
* Use CSS and not images to create fancy navigation items
* Read this article about how to speed up the download time of your web pages at http://www.webcredible.co.uk/speed
Information should be easy to retrieve
We read web pages in a different manner to the way we read printed matter. We generally don't read pages word-for-word - instead we scan. When we scan web pages certain items stand out:
* Headings
* Link text
* Bold text
* Bulleted lists
Did you notice that images were left out of that list? Contrary to the way in which we read printed matter, we see text before we see images on the Internet. For optimal website usability don't place important information in images as it might go unnoticed.
Restrictions must not be placed on users
Don't prevent your users from navigating through the Internet in the way that they want to. For example:
1. Every time a link is opened in a new window the back b
RSS feeds are a great communication medium, and when properly managed, web feeds can bring in significant Internet traffic. RSS feeds should contain compelling themed content with episodic titles that are united in common broad theme. Use RSS feeds as an online marketing and search engine optimization tool. Just as optimizing an HTML web page will increase exposure, so too will an RSS feed that is properly optimized and promoted. Use these simple tips to improve your web fee
* Organisation logo is in the top-left corner and links back to the homepage
* The term ‘About us’ is used for organisation information
* Navigation is in the same place on each page and adjacent to the content
* Anything flashing or placed above the top logo is often an advertisement
* The term ‘Shopping cart’ is used for items you might wish to purchase
There are numerous other conventions like these that enhance your website's usability - can you think of some more?
Don't underestimate the importance of these conventions - as the Internet matures we're getting more and more used to things being a certain way. Break these conventions and you may be left with nothing but a website with poor usability and a handful of dissatisfied site visitors.
Pages must download quickly
Usability studies have shown that 8.6 seconds is the maximum time web users will wait for a page to download (source: Andrew B. King - Speed Up Your Site). As of March 2004 just 25% of UK web users had broadband (source: UK National Statistics) so it's essential for optimal usability that your website downloads quickly.
To speed up the download time of your website we recommend you do three things:
* Use CSS and not tables to lay out your web page
* Use CSS and not images to create fancy navigation items
* Read this article about how to speed up the download time of your web pages at http://www.webcredible.co.uk/speed
Information should be easy to retrieve
We read web pages in a different manner to the way we read printed matter. We generally don't read pages word-for-word - instead we scan. When we scan web pages certain items stand out:
* Headings
* Link text
* Bold text
* Bulleted lists
Did you notice that images were left out of that list? Contrary to the way in which we read printed matter, we see text before we see images on the Internet. For optimal website usability don't place important information in images as it might go unnoticed.
Restrictions must not be placed on users
Don't prevent your users from navigating through the Internet in the way that they want to. For example:
1. Every time a link is opened in a new window the back
In Stephen Covey's great book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", he talks about the 'emotional bank account', where you have to build a credit in your relationship with the individuals who you work with (and everyone else as well!).If what you do isn't 'trustworthy', then all you have done in your gentle listening and asking great and interested questions to build, is to 'debit' your account. And if you do more of this than the credit you bu
Pages must download quickly
Usability studies have shown that 8.6 seconds is the maximum time web users will wait for a page to download (source: Andrew B. King - Speed Up Your Site). As of March 2004 just 25% of UK web users had broadband (source: UK National Statistics) so it's essential for optimal usability that your website downloads quickly.
To speed up the download time of your website we recommend you do three things:
* Use CSS and not tables to lay out your web page
* Use CSS and not images to create fancy navigation items
* Read this article about how to speed up the download time of your web pages at http://www.webcredible.co.uk/speed
Information should be easy to retrieve
We read web pages in a different manner to the way we read printed matter. We generally don't read pages word-for-word - instead we scan. When we scan web pages certain items stand out:
* Headings
* Link text
* Bold text
* Bulleted lists
Did you notice that images were left out of that list? Contrary to the way in which we read printed matter, we see text before we see images on the Internet. For optimal website usability don't place important information in images as it might go unnoticed.
Restrictions must not be placed on users
Don't prevent your users from navigating through the Internet in the way that they want to. For example:
1. Every time a link is opened in a new window the back
At its core, leadership is about people. Fundamental to this is that leaders take care of their people. But this concept also uncovers one of the biggest clich?s in American business; people are our most important asset. Countless organizations, and the leaders in those organizations, say this but the reality of their actions is far different. The message they often send is that the people don’t really matter – it is all about the bottom-line. The leader who sends the messag
To speed up the download time of your website we recommend you do three things:
* Use CSS and not tables to lay out your web page
* Use CSS and not images to create fancy navigation items
* Read this article about how to speed up the download time of your web pages at http://www.webcredible.co.uk/speed
Information should be easy to retrieve
We read web pages in a different manner to the way we read printed matter. We generally don't read pages word-for-word - instead we scan. When we scan web pages certain items stand out:
* Headings
* Link text
* Bold text
* Bulleted lists
Did you notice that images were left out of that list? Contrary to the way in which we read printed matter, we see text before we see images on the Internet. For optimal website usability don't place important information in images as it might go unnoticed.
Restrictions must not be placed on users
Don't prevent your users from navigating through the Internet in the way that they want to. For example:
1. Every time a link is opened in a new window the back
Linking is an important job that any webmasters need to do in order to get their web site noticed by internet users. Internet is made up by websites linking each other creating a huge network. So It makes sense that the most visited web sites will be the ones with more links to them.Although it may appear that it is easy to create link from and to your website there some things that webmasters need to put in mind when doing the linking job.These are several lin
* Headings
* Link text
* Bold text
* Bulleted lists
Did you notice that images were left out of that list? Contrary to the way in which we read printed matter, we see text before we see images on the Internet. For optimal website usability don't place important information in images as it might go unnoticed.
Restrictions must not be placed on users
Don't prevent your users from navigating through the Internet in the way that they want to. For example:
1. Every time a link is opened in a new window the back button is disabled. Approximately 60% of Web users employ the back button as their primary means of navigation (source: Usability Interface). If you do this then you're preventing 60% of your users from using their primary navigation - now that can't be good for usability.
2. Don't use frames to lay out your website. Frames can cause a number of usability problems, namely:
* Disabling the back button (see above)
* Bookmarking not possible
* Impossible to e-mail the link to someone else
* Problems with printing
* Users feel trapped if external links open in the same window
* Search engine optimisation issues
There are lots of other ways that websites can place restrictions on its users, ultimately damaging their usability - can you think of any more? Just think back to the last time a website really infuriated you - what annoying thing did it do to make you feel that way?
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