Posts Tagged ‘user experience’

How to Improve the Usability of Your Web Site

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

You can spend a year straight working on your Vancouver web design , but it will be all for not if your website is difficult to use and navigate. To help, I’ve listed some tips anyone can use to improve the usability and functionality of their website.

The first method is to make sure the typography of your content is suitable. You can use CSS to easily space out the lines with large blocks of text. The longer a single line of text is, the greater the line-height of each line should be. Having an easy to read to read font-size is also recommended. Some sites have 10-pixel-tall text in Verdana font; while that may look neat and tidy, you have to really strain your eyes to read the actual text.

You should also make it easy for visitors to find what they are looking for on your site. Having a content rich website is great, just make sure that your visitors have an effective way of navigating to all of it. Whether it be a simple index or a more complex SQL search engine, make sure it is effective in getting visitors to what they are looking for.

Ensure that your site loads fast if you do not want to lose visitors. Today’s ADD ridden internet user will leave a page if it doesn’t load within 15 second, so make sure your site is as fast as it is easy to use.

Last of all, test each and every link on your site before any internet marketing strategy goes online. A broken link or an ineffective script can ruin your chances of keeping good visitors.

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