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Widen Website Usability - Keep it Simple

posted Oct 30, 2011 8:03 PM by Anantha Narayan

The webpages you make should be verified in all major browsers. The pages, webapps, scripts and applets must work well in Linux, Mac and xp.

Making it very flashy, Animated DHTML navigation, etc. may impress a few but may be a big usability problems for some visitors, search engines also will have trouble indexing your pages. Avoid too much frames and scripts too, use some CSS. DHTML-CSS generation in some Wysiwyg work only in certain browsers and OS - Beware.

  • The Pages must be Viewable by 800*600 and 1024*768 Monitors.
  • The PNG transparency must work for few versions of all above browsers.
  • The Main Pages must load quickly for users of Broadband and Dial-up-Networking.
  • Very Big Jpeg, Pdf, Mpeg, Flash, mp3 or Webapps must load only on Request.
  • A Menu / Toolbar, Breadcrumb, sitemap and a search to Navigate and Return.
  • Appropriate Meta-Tags, Proper title wth not more that 6 or 7 words.
  • An About-Blog-Cell in Main Page to indicate in short what the website is for.
  • An easily Accessible Online email form to contact you easily.
  • A clear indication of who is the webmaster or company behind website.
  • The Font size should not shrink and become unreadable on some browsers.
  • light background preferable with dark 12px font or better.
  • Inform in advance, pages about cookies, activex and java that needs information.
Widen Website Usability - Keep it Simple.