Basic Web Usability

Basic Web Usability What is web usability and why is it important? Web usability is to make your site so that your site users to find what you're looking for quickly and efficiently. A usable website can reap huge benefits for your website and your company .* Anyone? 1 invested in improving your website usability retus? 10? 100 (Source: IBM) * A web usability redesign can the sales conversion rate of 100% (source: Jakob Nielson) Your site is easy navigateUsers gradually get used to pattes and phrases in particular via the Inteet, for example: * Organization logo in the upper left and link to homepage * The term "about us? is responsible for organizing information * Navigation is in the same place and on every page next to the content * Anything that flashes or is on the top of the logo is often an ad * The term? Cart? is used for items that you want purchaseThere are numerous other conventions of this type to improve the usability of your website - you can still see more? Never underestimate the importance of these conventions - such as the Inteet matures, there are more and more used to things a certain way. In light of these conventions and you can use only one site with poor usability and a handful of dissatisfied site visitors.Pages need to download quicklyUsability studies have shown that 8.6 seconds is the maximum time web users waiting for a page to the download (source: Andrew B. King - Speed Up Your Site). In March 2004, only 25% of Inteet users in the UK has broadband (source: National Statistics of the United Kingdom), is essential for better usability that your website downloads quickly.To speed up the download time of your website, you should do three things: * Use CSS and not tables, you create your Web pages * Use CSS and not images of lust Navigation Products * Read the article about how to display the download time for your web pages under should be easy to read Web pages retrieveWe in a different manner to the way we read printed material. We generally do not read pages word by word - we scan them. When the scan web pages certain items stand in the foreground: * items * * Link Text * Bold Text unordered listsDid will note that the photos were from this list? In contrast to the way we read printed material, text, before you see the images we see on the Inteet. For maximum usability site is not important information in images, as it could go unnoticed.Restrictions may not be sold usersDon't prevent users to navigate through the Inteet so that they want. For example: 1 Every time a link will open in a new window the back button is disabled. About 60% of web users use the back button as the primary means of navigation (source: Usability Interface). If you do this, then you're preventing 60% of users from using their primary navigation - now that is not good for usability.2. Do not use frames, you can consult the website. Frames can cause a number of usability problems, namely: * Disable the back button (see above) * * Could Bookmarking is not possible by e-mail a link to a person that the problems with the press * * Users feel trapped if exteal links open in same window * problem of search engine optimization there are many other ways that Web sites may contain restrictions on its users, ultimately damaging Usability - may yet? Just think back to the last time a website really infuriated you - what annoying thing is that we think that the way? This article was written by Trenton Moss. He is crazy about usability and web accessibility - so crazy that he started his own web usability and accessibility consultancy (Webcredible -) to help make the Inteet a better place for all. They offer fantastic accessibility and packages of CSS support, which you can read about all the support.