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Archive: Usability


Make your website sticky!

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Peanut butter and jelly. So tasty, so sweet and so sticky! Make your website like that and you are on your way to having a successful website. A Sticky website is a website that keep visitors around for longer, that make them view more pages and a website that get them to come back for [...]

5 plugins to do inline form validation with jQuery

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Inline form validation is a great usability feature that helps ensure that your visitor don’t fill out your forms incorrectly and submit just to be prompted with a message, that they have forgot a @ in their email address by making the the validation process happen while or just after they type something in a [...]

Are your CMS user-friendly?

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

I’ve tried out a couple of different CMS systems lately and have had a chance to look at the back-end of some rather small, local sites. And boy there’s a lot of different ways to go about giving clients access. Some of them have full access to every corner of the CMS and some aren’t [...]

Give your visitors a good first impression

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

First impressions, they are a bitch ain’t they? Everybody has had a bad day when they are not looking their best at a party or an event. And then there’s that feeling. The feeling that no matter what you say, no matter what you do, people are going to keep looking at you funny, like [...]

Squeeze more speed out of your wordpress blog!

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Page speed is all the rage right now. And although wordpress is a fast blogging platform, it can get really bloated, really quick. With all the free plugins and themes using a lot of requests. Here are some tips to get a faster loading wordpress blog. First Grab yourself some tools to measure the speed [...]

Doh! Usability tip #3 Make it easy to compare your products

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Have you ever been to a website and had a hard time finding the product that would be the best for your needs? Have you checked lately that you aren’t making the same mistake on your own site? You really should. It might be really easy for you to decide which product is the best, [...]

Doh! Usability tip #2 Stop loosing signups, use inline validation of forms!

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/ / CC BY 2.0 Does your website have sign up forms? Are the validated as the user enters their data? They should be. There is nothing worse than signing up for a forum, a web app or an online service, pressing the Sign up or buy button and then seeing a little red line [...]

Doh! Usability Tip #1 Poor marking of links and buttons!

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/ / CC BY 2.0 Have you ever had a moment, where you thought: Doh! That’s why My traffic isn’t converting, or that’s why all my visitors bounce. Well that’s what this series of posts will be about.