| Website Usability means to design a website with the | | | | 2. Engaging, Clear and well written text. |
| visitors in mind from the outset. In today's world of | | | | 3. Appropriate images that don't overwhelm the |
| web design, web designers have to take a lot of | | | | page. |
| considerations into account when designing a | | | | 4. Easy to find contact information. |
| web-site, the main being usability. | | | | 5. Easy to use contact / feedback forms. |
| Website Usability is all about the visitors' experience | | | | 6. Consistent design and style throughout the |
| when they visit and use your website. When | | | | web-site design. |
| designing a website, the designer should base the | | | | In experienced hands, HTML (Hyper Text Markup |
| whole design and implementation around website | | | | Language) combined with CSS (Cascading Style |
| usability. A lot of design agencies design web-sites to | | | | Sheets) allows complete freedom to achieve website |
| be very graphical, showing lifestyle shots and not a | | | | usability. |
| great deal of text based information and fact. | | | | Technically the process of website designing can be |
| Potential customers are searching the internet for | | | | quite difficult. While designing a website, a designer |
| information, not for images. The look and feel of a | | | | should keep in mind that not every visitor will view |
| web-site along side quality text content is very | | | | the website in the same circumstances. The display |
| important in website design. | | | | of the page may change according to the browser, |
| Successful website usability is the presentation of | | | | monitor size, and display settings. |
| information on the page, with a professional design | | | | Designing your web-site in HTML and CSS, and |
| that will engage with the visitor and leave them with | | | | following W3C guidelines, can help reduce the |
| a lasting impression, or even better, persuading them | | | | difference in the appearance of your web-site across |
| to contact or purchase from you. | | | | different platforms. |
| Good web-site usability practice doesn't mean you | | | | In my experience, a user friendly web-site has a |
| should exclude dynamic content such as flash or | | | | professional, clean design accompanied with |
| images, it is simply important to make it relevant to | | | | informative text that is well written for humans and |
| the information contained on the page. | | | | not search engines. |
| Essentially you want to make it easy for them to do | | | | Flash and other animations do make a nice feature on |
| what they want to do on your website and find the | | | | web-sites, providing they don't overwhelm the rest |
| information, facts or prices that they need. Enhancing | | | | of the page or the design. |
| the website usability means that you are maximizing | | | | All web designers should take web-site usability into |
| your presence on the internet. | | | | account before starting with a design on the |
| Some of the factors of Website usability include: | | | | computer. |
| 1. Simple Navigation between pages. | | | | |