Web Site Usability:

 

Here are represented a few simple but very useful tips on how a webmaster can create and maintain a user-friendly, user-centered web sites, so that visitors will find the site easy and pleasant to use, and return back to visit it again. Our usability list includes three important parts:

  • Clear and simple navigation system. Keep the navigation system consistent. It means that your navigation system should have the same format and should be in the same place on every page of the site. Visitors will get frustrated and embarrassed if links appear or disappear unpredictably.

    • Use suitable text inside links. You should help your visitors foresee where a link is going to take them. Visitors should be able to anticipate a destination of link by reading the text on the navigation button.

    Home page. Include your home page inside the navigation system. Very often visitors enter your site via an internal page, and they want to go to the home page next.

    Site search box. We have too many web sites that make a Search the Web on their home page. But only a few of them make inner search box. You should make the search box recognizable on your site and be sure that it searches your entire site.


  • Clear and simple content. You should place the most important information high on the page. For example, usually newspapers print the top story on the first lines of the pages. You should check your site display at in a number of different screens to make sure that the most important content is visible.

    • Images. Text in images is invisible to search engine spiders and to visitors. Users may have images turned off in their screens or use assistive technologies like screen readers.

  • Real users test.The web site designer can't always see the lacks of their web site design or navigation, when the site is ready. In this way the real users' opinions can be very useful. You should ask your visitors about general but important things on your site, and amend the drawbacks if there are any.


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