Here are the top posts and pages viewed on Best Web Image for the month of April, 2010.
My personal favorite is, More Important Stuff on the Left. It’s a follow up of Jakob Nielson’s report on his findings. Continue reading »
Go ahead, call me the Justify Cop. I haven’t been pointing fingers too much lately about the use of justify, but after a series of events that have taken place with my work, I think I have the perfect excuse. For this post thank you goes to the developers of San Antonio Air Conditioning Service. They occasionally hire me to review their sites, and were nice enough to let me allow to use this new site as an example.
Besides learning when or when not to justifying text, there is something else that this site needs to justify. It’s the content. Continue reading »
Feb 122010
My writing stinks you say. Eh…you may be right. I check my spelling, and try to make sure everything is correct. Still though, I know I need help.
Good news for me? It looks like I just found some help, and have even put this post to the test. It’s the Document Readability Test. The test reveals the number of characters, sentences, and reading comprehension level. The results also show ways to improve readability of text, and lists the most offending sentences. Continue reading »
Feb 042010
Two months ago I added the Tweetmeme button to my blog. Two weeks after that, I wrote about how it appeared to be doubling my Twitter Traffic. In that post I started out by saying that I may be jumping the gun on this subject. Apparently, I did. Continue reading »
Jan 142010
A fairly important usability tip for web design is to make sure you include all the important details to support your content. A couple examples would be to make sure table columns have labeled headings, and all graph data is labeled.This may seem to be an incredibly obvious tip, but even the big boys make these kind of mistakes.
Example of Not Double Checking
Here is an example of Yahoo not labeling the comic on the page specifically designed to show it. Additionally, though it is not seen in the screenshot, the title of the page does not reflect the comic name either. Not one clue to the name of this comic. Continue reading »
Dec 042009
I’ve done it before, and I’m doing it again. For the next two weeks, now until December 18th, 2009, I will be running a promotion on my Web Usability and Design Analysis. The regular price is $29.95, but for the next two weeks you can get it for just $19.95.
Here is Why You May Need or Want One
If you have a website, and are trying to improve it, you definitely qualify as potential customer that may want one. If your site is going nowhere, no matter how much marketing you put into it, you qualify as a potential customer that needs one. Continue reading »
So you just finished putting up your retail site, and it’s live. Yesterday you had a whopping twenty visitors, and made zero sales. You are obviously going to need some traffic. Do you know how you are going to get it?
Exclusive Concepts specializes in online marketing for e-commerce websites. They are by trade, a SEO company, and getting search traffic is one of the best ways to start getting that targeted traffic. Continue reading »
Nov 162009
Maybe it’s just me, but when I review websites I find I always seem to have a soft spot for websites with smiling faces. Last week I was asked to check out this Denver photo booth rentals website, and the first thing that catches my eye is the smiling faces. Maybe it’s the; see someone else smile, I smile factor. Regardless of why, this site nailed the essence of what they are trying to sell with smiling pictures.
It’s Not Really About the Booth
The website rents photo booths. Is that what they are really selling though? If you go to their home page, Denver Photo Booth Rentals, you will find 12 pictures, and only one of them is the actually photo booth. Continue reading »
Doing a little digging around on McAfee’s website today, I came across a pretty cool feature they have for website owners. It can also be used by anyone if you simply curious of how safe a website is.
The service is McAfee’s SiteAdvisor. The service basically reports if the site analyzed has any known problems or complaints. It shows how many times a site has been reported for spam, if it has adware, if it has popups, and items of that nature. What I really found interesting though, was it Green Affiliation report. Continue reading »
Oct 212009
I don’t recall ever having a martini while signing up with a new web host, but I may have had a few beers setting up a personal one. Pictures help draw a visitors attention, and Velcom.com is putting this theory to the max. Bikini girl and cocktails, the perfect recipe for getting some tech geek guys attention.
Velcom offers cheap web hosting service, and in their words, offer cheap VPS hosting. Continue reading »
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