With Mother's Day a few short days away, perhaps it's time we gave a little respect to the moms and aslo contact a web design for little refresh of your site for this special day
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A Tweak a Day Convinces Visitors to Stay
We want our site visitors to complete the tasks we designate for them. We want them to feel comfortable, rather than anxious. We want to persuade them to do something beyond what they came for, or maybe tell a friend about what we offer. You can nurture your website every day by remembering that you are the host and everyone who arrives wants to know what you have and how it will benefit them.
Here are some ways you can take a fresh look at your website every day to ensure maximum usability:
1. Give someone who is not familiar with the site a task to complete. Observe how they navigate your site and go about completing that task. Note any areas of difficulty, no matter how small.
2. Go back and gather every possible note, bar napkin and whiteboard meeting scribble where the design was hashed out. Look for and document those ideas that were not included. These may turn into future enhancements. See the full story at: http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/pages/everyday-usability-14-point-checklist-for-success.aspx
A recent study on usability found that men prefer fast download speed to easy navigation. Women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility.
In a survey of 301 undergraduates on the importance of different web usability criteria, researchers from Southern Illinois University found that after ease of use, men prefer fast download speed over easy navigation while women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility.
Both genders seemed to agree that ease of use is the most important factor in assessing website usability. It is in the second-most important factor that gender differences come into play. Men prefer fast download speeds second, while women prefer easy navigation. Web customization was found to be the least important factor in web usability , consistent with a previous design factors research.
In a survey of 301 undergraduates on the importance of different web usability criteria, researchers from Southern Illinois University found that after ease of use, men prefer fast download speed over easy navigation while women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility.
Both genders seemed to agree that ease of use is the most important factor in assessing website usability. It is in the second-most important factor that gender differences come into play. Men prefer fast download speeds second, while women prefer easy navigation. Customization was found to be the least important factor in web usability , consistent with a previous design factors research.
See the full story at: http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2009/05/01/men-vs-women-website-optimization-usability-study.aspx
