http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dwmx_design_tips.html
In summary, this article explains that the key to good website design is USABILITY.
Here are the main points listed in the article:
- Know your audience.
- Test the site with inexperienced users.
- Make the home page content valuable to the user.
- Archive old content for returning users.
- Include useful search terms in meta tags and titles.
- Provide contact and copyright info on every page.
- Provide a user-friendly navigation system.
- Provide search options.
- Maintain consistancy in design.
- Be carefup of noise and movement - don't make it too "Flashy".
- Proofread the text.
- Provide printer-friendly pages.
- Enhance pages, don't remove them - maintain the URLs that previous users may have bookmarked.
Also in my research I came across other sites worth sharing:
Website Ideas - undiscovered ideas
http://www.dailybits.com/11-undiscovered-website-ideas-to-steal-and-make-you-rich/http://bigsellingwebsitedesign.com/index.php/whats-the-big-idea/42-profitable-website-ideas-for-2008/
Good Website Design - key points to remember
http://digitalpeabody.com/articles/2007/09/17/how-to-make-a-good-website/
Bad Website Design - sometimes you have to know bad ideas to appreciate good ideas
http://www.badwebsiteideas.com/
2 comments:
Hi, Yvonne:
These are helpful tips. –Thanks for sharing them!
You have a good approach. 'Showing comparisons' between the good, the bad, (and the ugly!) is a very effective way to illustrate why something works, while others do not.
Jacob Neilson is the pioneer of web usability research (although his website is a poor example of this!). He has also done some interesting research into readability.
Good work!
–Nancy
Hi Yvonne!
Thank you for an interesting blog. I would appreciate it very much if would include to this post a link to my website ideas site: http://badass-website-ideas.blogspot.com/
I think it is the most regularly updated website ideas site right now and also the ideas are always fresh, not just copies of someone else's ideas. Please check it out and then decide! :)
Cheers,
Teemu
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