Poll – Watching Others Use Your Site

May 272009
 

Somehow it got to be Wednesday again, and that means new poll day. Instead of coming up with a new poll though I have decided to bring back an old one because I feel it’s an important question. Have you ever watched at least five people complete a task on your website? One of the reasons brick and mortar stores work so well is because the store managers or owners see their customers using it on a daily basis, and if they stay in business long they see a lot more than five people.

Online though, it’s a different story. Store owners or managers don’t have the opportunity to see their customers shopping or browsing. It’s basically a “Hope you like my site” kind of scenario. There are several services out their that track your visitors actions so you can at least get a general idea what they are doing. Ideally though, running it’s always nice to get some verbal feedback as well.

The reason for the poll? It’s to see what kind of research most of you are doing, and it’s also a wake up call to those that just assume their site is well designed based solely on analytics.

Here is the poll: Have you ever watched at least five people complete a task on your website?

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Poll – Do You Use Card Sorting?

May 202009
 

Has card sorting ever proved you wrong? Several times my original navigation plans for a site have been changed by the simple act of asking others. A designers view is not always that of your target audience. Here is some basic information about it, if you are unfamiliar with card sorting: Card Sorting Basics.

Here is the poll: Have you ever used card sorting to help define navigation for your website?

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Poll – The Importance of Tag Clouds

May 132009
 

I use them, and I think they give a great clue on the sites content, but I wonder how valuable others find tag clouds.

Here is the poll: On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the most important, how important do you feel tag clouds are to a blog or website?

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Poll – How Many Font Types Do You Use?

Apr 292009
 

Here is something I check for when I do my web usability and design analysis, and for many of you, it’s a good thing. Nothing says cut and paste site design better than seeing a website with for or five font types. Making your site appear consistently throughout is an important factor. It shows professionalism, and additionally enhances the usability of a website. So this little poll is a wake up call for those of you that answered four or more.

This is also a great topic where you can use the big, top 100 type sites out there to use as an example for your own.

Here is the poll: How many different font types does your website use?

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Poll – How Often Do You Test Your Site

Apr 222009
 

Test your site very often? I’m sure most of us had found an important part of one of our sites not functioning. Contact forms, ordering forms, simple navigation, html, php, asp, javascript, java, cgi, just way, way too many ways to mess things up. All because of that dang semi-colon you forgot.

I know most users have experienced failed forms, even when trying to make an order. Yikes! So I wonder…how often do you test your sites?

Here is the poll: Website owners, how often do you test the functionality of your sites?

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Poll – Heading Tags

Apr 152009
 

After last weeks poll, I won’t even link to it, there is solid proof that content is king. Nobody liked the poll, and I only got six voters. I was one of them. I’m guessing this weeks poll still will not be as popular, but it’s a question that has been getting to me a lot lately. Reviewing site after site, I can only believe that most webmasters or site developers do not know how to use heading tags.

Looking at my top ten list of website mistakes, improper use of heading tags was the number one item listed. Ninety percent of the site owners failed to use heading tags properly. I can only assume this is lack of knowledge because using them correctly has substantial benefits, usability wise, and SEO wise. So this week poll is asking you if you know how. Please be honest!

Here is the poll: Website/Blog Owners! Do you understand how to use heading tags on your site?

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Poll – File Permissions

Apr 082009
 

Sticking to the topic of security after yesterday’s post, Spring Security Cleaning, I wonder how many website owners know how to change their file permissions.

Here is the poll: Website Owners! Do you know how to change the file permissions of your files on your server?

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Poll – Tweets on Your Website or Blog

Mar 252009
 

I have seen a few widgets out there, and few blog owners doing this, showing their tweets  made on Twitter. Think it has any value for the visitor? Possibly, but for now I am just curious how many Twitter users are actually showing theirs.

Here is the poll: Twitter Users! Do you post your tweets on your website or blog?

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Poll – Logging Changes Made

Mar 182009
 

I recently wrote a post called Journal Analytics where I mention my practice of logging changes I make to my sites. I got to wondering how many of you do, so here is this weeks poll.

Here is the poll: Do you log the changes you make to a website?

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