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Usability
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09.16.084 step process to a successful websiteI recently stumbled upon a new forum here in Australia about business. I’ve been looking for that ever since I moved here. There is a thread going on there where they discuss the importance of SEO compared to the quality of the content – some agree you need to hire a copywriter, while others say you need a kick ass design. They are actually all correct. The process of getting users to your site and getting a conversion out of them is a four step process. 1. Marketing your site There is literally an unlimited amount of things you can do to market ...
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09.13.07Usability tips #2: Speed up your siteLoad time is an very important factor to any site, since your users won't be waiting around for your pages to load if it takes forever. This especially goes for your new visitors. There are of course several things you can do to speed up your website, both easy tricks and harder ones. Tips to reduce your page load time Use CSS for faster pages. Learn to seperate the content from the design. By using CSS you allow the browser to cache all the formatting and stylizing so it won't have to go through each and every single tag over and over ...
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09.06.07Usability tips #1: BreadcrumbsHave you ever seen this kind of navigation on a website? Home > Destinations > Europe > Norway > Oslo It's called breadcrumbs. The term breadcrumbs comes from the tale of Hansel and Gretel where they wander through the forrest and leave breadcrumbs to find their way home. Of course, in the tale the breadcrumbs represent the actual path Hansel and Gretel took, but the breadcrumbs navigation we know from the internet does not. It just present the optimal path from the home archive to the current page in the hierarchy. Breadcrumbs trails are used for navigation on websites. Breadcrumbs won't ...
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08.22.07New category - UsabilityOver my years being a webmaster, there is one thing I have learned - usability is very important. Since I run several norwegian websites, I have had plenty of time to experiment with different usability tests, and now I'm finally going to reveal some of the information I gather from all my little researches. But first, in this very first post in the usability section, I'm going to explain a little about what usability is and why it's important: What is usability? Usability addresses the relationship between a tool and their users. In order for a tool to be effective, it must ...
