Simply ensuring your website is accessible to screen reader users is unfortunately not enough to ensure these users can find what they’re looking for in a reasonably quick and efficient manner. Even if your site is accessible to screen reader users, its usability could be so incredibly poor that they needn’t have bothered coming to [...]
The Basics You have a flourishing business everything is in its place. You just miss one important piece of marketing: an Internet Presence a website. Like everything in business, getting a website needs planning. Getting an effective website needs even more planning. Here are some basic things to know and plan: The WWW What is [...]
What’s this? A whole article about titles and headlines? Well, yes. Titles are some of the most vital parts of your site, especially if it consists of a series of articles. Yet they’re also some of the most ignored elements of all web pages, and more difficult than you’d think to do correctly. You have [...]
It’s four whole days into 2006 and most of us still have a few New Year’s resolutions we haven’t broken yet. One resolution you should make – and keep – is to review your web site and fix these four web site flaws. 1. Bad layout formatting. I saw a web site the other day [...]
The object of search engines is to give their visitors a list of web pages relevant to the search words, in the order of relevance to the search words. So what do they want from websites? Relevance to a search: The frequency of the search word on a web page is an indicator of its [...]
The top ten fonts for website design might change in order, but for the most part the fonts that make up this list stay the same due to their popularity. In general, the top ten list includes Arial, Frutiger, Futura, Gills Sans, Helvetica, Lucida, Optima, Palatino, Agfa Rotis, and Univers. The reason these fonts are [...]
One of the biggest problems with Web sites is that the very first page on the site is turning people away. Why? Because most Web site owners talk about themselves instead of talking about their Web site visitor. You know what I mean. How often have you visited a Web site that starts off with [...]
When people want to get an overview of what the business, company or product is about, they tend to get the brochures. In them, they are given background information on things that they need to know. If companies were the books, then the brochures are the summary of it. Having all the important things people [...]
Web sites can contain hundreds of pages, even thousands. You have spent your time making a look and brand for your web site, using different font sizes, colours, margins etc all within each web page. Later on you decide that you want to change the background colour of the website, and then realise that you [...]
Have you ever visited a website where you keep clicking on links, hoping you are going to find that information you’re looking for, only to be led to more pages of links. It gets frustrating and visitors often leave without finding what they were looking for. That is not good for you our your visitor. [...]
