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User Friendly Sites
Don’t we all both Love and Hate the internet? A website can be a place that entertains and enlightens you – or it can turn your hair gray with frustration. Here are some of our tips for use-friendly sites.
- Get Straight to the point – Avoid splash home pages that are meant to impress, go directly to content.
- The masthead should have a tag-line of about half a dozen words that says instantly what your site is all about.
- Important information should be in the top part of the page so it’s in view even if user’s window is not enlarged
- Fewer words are better – and information should be broken up into short paragraphs and bullet points.
- Each page should have a title so it’s easy to know where you are on the site
- Main Navigation should highlight which page / section you are in
- There should be contact and about pages – so visitors know who you are and how to find you
- You should be able to find home from any page
- Keep main navigation consistent through the site – don’t go changing it on different pages
- Keep the search box prominently up at the top
- Larger sites sites should have archives
More Reading
Don’t Make Me Think – A common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug