Feedback Army provides a simple way for small websites to enter into the realm of usability testing.
How usable IS your website?
As webmasters, we think we know how people will react to our website and our features but have we ever asked them? Chances are, NO.
With Feedback Army, you can [...]
I took the plunge and decided to update to Internet Explorer 7.
I had two immediate thoughts:
It took too long to update and install. Downloading and installing either Firefox or Opera took a heck of a lot less time. It looks a lot like Opera
I initially thought the length of time it took [...]
Silktide provides a nifty little tool called SiteScore that assesses websites according to a variety of standards. While in the end, it is just a score with a nice little button, the service does provide a quick way to assess the health and viability of a website.
There are five main categories of scoring:
Marketing [...]
If someone woke you up out of a dead sleep at 3 am and asked, “What is your website about?” Could you respond quickly with a single sentence?
If you can’t, then there are problems. You don’t have focus on what you want your website to be about. You need to pare down the purpose [...]
I’ve written and upload a new article about website validation. Hop on over to the website optimization section and give it a read. It describes for beginners why validation of HTML and CSS should be considered. I point users to some of the free tools out there to accomplish the task.
[tags]html validation, css [...]
Over at SEOmoz, EGOL is asking whether long blog posts or short blog posts make for a more effective blog. I added a comment stating I thought he would need a combination of both (something I have thinking about for this blog which tends to feature longer posts, I need to mix it up [...]
On the Cre8pc blog, Kim reflects on the state of blogdom and the expectations of blog behavior she has come across. I have to concur on seveal points.
Does every blog need to accept comments? Of course blogs are made to be social. Accepting comments is a way to create a conversation. However, comments [...]
I have been thinking a lot about web site usability and have been reading various articles about the topic. I am in the process of evaluating the usability of the RWT site. Jim Hedger writes that
All good marketing strategies are goal orientated and center around a clear vision. As time goes on, [...]
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