Usable Friendly Web Sites

Creating your website is only the beginning.

Getting people to come visit is the next step.

Once they're at the site it's most important that they :

stay
explore
return

Think about your favorite sites, and the ones you've left in disgust. Is there a pattern? Can you identify the things that appeal to you, and those that turn you away?

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clarity
ease

Making images fast is at least as important as making them well. Here's why.

Few people want to stare at a blank screen for a long time. Think about how long you are willing to wait to see a page on a site fill in.

Now look at a site done by Face 2 Interface that primarily presents images:

We make every effort to get pages on the sites we build to load quickly, and use high quality web graphics software including Adobe Photoshop and Ignite for our graphics work.

Being clear in your presentation of content will help make your visitor's experience on your site an enjoyable one.

Ease of use sums up the difference between a visitor friendly, usable web site and one that fights visitors.

Sophisticated presentation techniques including beautiful graphics and the use of products like Flash can do much to enhance the appearance and enjoyment experienced by your visitors.

The bottom though is that your website is intended to serve a function for visitors, whether that is to offer products or a service, or to display your writing or artwork.

SIMPL is our website information manager product which takes many of the technicalities out of web design and production.

SIMPL was used to produce New Diets and may serve as an illustration of the appeal of a very simplistic yet highly usable website design.

Change the design of this website.

"If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

-- Albert Einstein

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Managing data is the job of a computer system.

A website contains content which is presented to visitors on demand, i.e. in response to page clicks. The server or site host delivers the content to the client. Actually the client is the browser that the visitor to the site runs to surf the web.

Content management has become a broadly used and popular term in the modern world of the web. This is because as websites have become larger, and of more consistent value to businesses and their customers, organizations and their audience, presentation of easy to retrieve and useful information is of prime concern.

A few decades ago, databases were the innovation which allowed large mainframe computer systems to be useful for rendering services of key value such as banking, telecommunications, and administration of many other services.

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