Giant Image Syndrome

Posted on: Thursday, February 25th, 2010 in: Code, Graphic Design, Usability & Design

How giant images within your website can completely mess up your layout.

Test Document Readability

Posted on: Friday, February 12th, 2010 in: Sites Reviewed, Software, Usability & Design

Review of the Document Readability Test created by Online-Utility.org.

One Space or Two

Posted on: Monday, January 25th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

Why you should use a single space after a period when writing online.

Leading Your Visitors to Failure

Posted on: Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

Have you ever watched a visitor try one of your forms for the first time? It can be an enlightening experience! Example.

Setting Performance Goals

Posted on: Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

How setting performance goals for your websites primary goals can help improve your site for visitors.

Double Check the Details

Posted on: Thursday, January 14th, 2010 in: Sites Reviewed, Usability & Design

Make sure to double check all important titles and content details on your site. Included is an example of Yahoo forgetting to.

Use Screenshots within Articles to Improve Comprehension

Posted on: Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 in: Usability & Design

Using screenshots within my articles, user action to read it is reduced, comprehension improved, and visitors stay on my site longer.

Free Heading Tags

Posted on: Monday, January 11th, 2010 in: Code, Usability & Design

The value of heading tags, examples, and a brief how to.

One Week Left to Save 30%!

Posted on: Friday, December 11th, 2009 in: BWI, Usability & Design

A little reminder post about the special I am having on the web analysis, and a little bonus for those that order soon.

Minimizing Round Trip Times – RTT

Posted on: Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 in: Code, Server Side, Usability & Design

A brief tutorial on how to speed up your website by minimizing round trip times, RTT. Control your redirects, and pack your script.

Web Usability and Design Analysis – Save 30%

Posted on: Friday, December 4th, 2009 in: BWI, Sites Reviewed, Usability & Design

For the next two weeks, now until Dec. 18th, 2009, I will be running a promotion on my Web Usability and Design Analysis. Now on sale for just $19.95.

Get Free Usability and Design Tips by Not Subscribing

Posted on: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 in: BWI, Usability & Design

How to get more RSS followers by not using the term subscribe, and by additionally creating a follower page.

Use Easy to Remember Functions for Great Website Usability

Posted on: Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 in: Usability & Design

Using Facebook as an example see how a site can confuse a visitor, making it hard to remember how to repeat the function later on.

Free Web Usability and Design Analysis

Posted on: Monday, July 27th, 2009 in: BWI

Free web usability and design analysis surprise.

Today’s Read

Posted on: Monday, July 27th, 2009 in: Analytics, Usability & Design

Some quick tips on how to improve your website, reasons why your traffic might be dwindling, and the thought that you may be a spammer.

Take Ten Steps, Look Back To See If They Paid

Posted on: Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 in: BWI, Business Side

Customers don’t like to wait to pay. Allow them to pay right away to improve your sales.

Today’s Read

Posted on: Monday, July 20th, 2009 in: Software, Usability & Design

Today’s Read includes links to the YARRP plugin for WordPress, a tip on improving usability for a user session, and tools that can help you build a site easy.

Poll – Music While Using Your Computer

Posted on: Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

Poll, Do you listen to music while using your computer?

Poll – Masking Password Fields

Posted on: Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 in: Usability & Design

Poll: I strongly believe password fields should be masked, and I believe most people feel more secure with it. What do you think?

Making Correct UI Decisions

Posted on: Monday, June 8th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

Polls on BWI support Jakob’s recent release on post entitled Guesses vs. Data. User observation supports it as well!