Usability & Design

Usability and Design Tips for your website.

How to Link – PDF

Posted on: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 in: Usability & Design

Download the how to use anchor tags and link PDF file.

When Should You Push The Design Envelope?

Posted on: Saturday, June 12th, 2010 in: Business Side, Usability & Design

In this post I want to question when it’s appropriate to sacrifice a little readability in order to make an impact.

Blue Text on Black Background- Bet on Complaints

Posted on: Thursday, May 20th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

It is ok to be a little boring if you decide to use black text on a white background.

Focus Wins Over Pretty Design

Posted on: Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 in: Business Side, Usability & Design

How having a business plan for your site is the most important step.

Usability in the News

Posted on: Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 in: BWI, Usability & Design

There is a new section on the BWI home page, Usability in the News

Parallel Design has Some Major Benefits

Posted on: Thursday, May 6th, 2010 in: Code, Graphic Design, Usability & Design

The advantages of parallel design – design, code, and navigation

Popular Posts and Pages on BWI for April 2010

Posted on: Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 in: BWI, Sites Reviewed, Usability & Design

Top posts and pages on BWI for the month of April 2010

Content is Crap – Bells and Whistles are Everything

Posted on: Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 in: Graphic Design, Usability & Design

If you don’t at least have a picture to explain something, your visitors are moving on

Usability Testing Reveals Scrolling Content OK

Posted on: Monday, April 19th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

Doing some testing on a news feed that automatically scrolls, results point to…let it scroll

Flying Fingers Gives Me Contest Idea

Posted on: Friday, April 16th, 2010 in: BWI, Code, Usability & Design

How fast can you build a website contest.

The Intranet Enhancement List

Posted on: Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 in: Business Side, Code, Graphic Design, Server Side, Usability & Design

A list of important items a large tech corporation is addressing for their main intranet portal.

More Important Stuff on the Left

Posted on: Sunday, April 11th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

Many argue that the right column navigation is better for navigation. I argue the the left is better by simply showing examples from the top five sites on the Internet today.

Keep the Important Stuff on the Left

Posted on: Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

Jakob Nielson released a new report to day: Horizontal Attention Leans Left

Watch that Image Size

Posted on: Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

Limit the size of your images. It could be creating horizontal scroll.

Cut and Paste Character Count – Avoid Long Lines of Text

Posted on: Monday, March 29th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

Link to a cut and paste character count tool, and reasoning for limiting text width to 75-100 characters.

Incubate Your Great Idea

Posted on: Monday, March 22nd, 2010 in: Code, Usability & Design

Turn your web developing technique into a known W3C standard. Submit it to the Incubator Group.

Roger, Copy that Body Treatment, Over

Posted on: Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 in: Business Side, Usability & Design

A list of primary items that make a up body copy for online content..

Testing Your Journal

Posted on: Thursday, March 11th, 2010 in: Analytics, BWI, Usability & Design

Keep notes on changes made. I made a change to my site that I believe was a rock solid good idea. It turned out to be a dud, having a negative impact on my site.

Hiding User Functions in Plain Site

Posted on: Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

Jakob reminds us to not forget the user in our design, and to be wary of using a user interface for multiple tasks.

Google Looks to Improve Their Own On-site SEO

Posted on: Monday, March 8th, 2010 in: Code, Usability & Design

Google releases their own SEO report card. See how you can improve your own on-site SEO, and also improve your HTML.