posts tagged with ‘how to’
Top 5 Elements Every Website Must Have
Are you a small business or organization just getting your presence started on the web? Or do you already have a website and can’t figure out why your visitor traffic is lacking? In either case, here are a couple of essential components that you will need to include in your website to ensure a more [...]
10 usability related websites waiting for your guest post
Since a few weeks now I’m thinking of sending some of my soon-to-be-finished articles to other blogs, hopefully to be published as guest posts. Because my main interest lies in user-centered design, I went through my bookmarks looking for websites which seemed to fit my articles. The result is a list of websites, interested in contributions from other people, all writing about user-centered design.
5 quick and easy ways to improve your website’s usability
The ultimate goal of usability tests is to obtain the necessary information which will give you the possibility to make an interface so simple and intuitive in use that people can work with it without thinking. People who navigate through your application shouldn’t be spending too much time figuring out the different functionalities of it.
In this article I show you how to discover the most prominent interface problems of your website by following five simple tips. Remember: getting to know the problem is only half the work, you still need to interpret the results, make the improvements and test again.
How to avoid comment spam?
I’m sure you’ve seen them before, these mindbreaking questions you need to answer or impossible images to decipher just to comment on an article. After 5 tries the horrible thing finally agrees to what you’ve typed down.
As a webmaster you don’t want to spend too much time desciding whether the comment was made by a automated bot or not. As a visitor you don’t want to spend your time by solving a stupid question in order to contribute to a an article. In this article I’ll show you some of the most common solutions to reduce comment spam.
How to market your website with a confirmation email?
If you ever made an online purchase or subscribed yourself to a website you surely received a confirmation mail afterwards. Of all these emails you’ve received, how many times did you read information other than the obvious (your purchased books, the thank you note for subscribing)? All I see is a missed marketing opportunity because these emails are a powerful tool towards your visitors.
