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The Usability Week 2007 Conference - Nielsen Norman Group

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Jakob Nielsen's - The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines

Summary:

There are ten usability mistakes that about two-thirds of corporate websites make. The prevalence of these errors alone warrants attention, especially since they appear on sites with significant investment in usable design.

1. 1. Emphasize what your site offers that's of value to users and how your services differ from those of key competitors
   
2. Use a liquid layout that lets users adjust the homepage size
   
3. Use color to distinguish visited and unvisited links
   
4. Use graphics to show real content, not just to decorate your homepage
   
5. Include a tag line that explicitly summarizes what the site or company does
   
6. Make it easy to access anything recently featured on your homepage
   
7. Include a short site description in the window title
   
8. Don't use a heading to label the search area; instead use a "Search" button to the right of the box
   
9. With stock quotes, give the percentage of change, not just the points gained or lost
   
10. Don't include an active link to the homepage on the homepage

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Ten Important things every Web Developer/Author should know

This list contains ten things every Web author should know:

1. The Web is not WYSIWYG.
2. HTML is a structural markup language.
3. Web authoring is not word-processing.
4. Not everyone browses graphically.
5. Most "cool tricks" -- aren't.
6. Gear only goes so far.
7. Original content is key.
8. It doesn't matter how popular your browser is
9. Readers love fast-loading pages.
10. And Hey! Let's be careful out there.

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1. The Web is not WYSIWYG.

It's frustrating but true. The Web is not What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get. Well, actually, that's not exactly true. What you see is what you get, of course.

The problem arises when you mistakenly assume that what you see is what everyone else gets. The key thing to remember here is that there are millions of Websurfers out there who don't use your favorite browser, your video card, your screen settings, or even the same kind of computer as you.



2. HTML is a structural markup language, not a page-description language.

When you write HTML, you are defining the structure of a document, not specifying its layout. Yes, HTML does include some basic formatting and alignment tags. But it's very easy to misunderstand and misuse these tags.

You heard right -- it's possible to misuse HTML tags. In HTML, there are actually rules for what tags are okay, and where they are okay. There are even tools available to check your pages to see if they follow these basic rules of HTML.

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