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No matter how brilliant your website design is, if it is hard to find the
content of your website then your site is as useful as an empty gas tank. Here
are some usability tips to improve the usability of your website to ensure it
serves its functions optimally.
The first method is to make sure the typography (text) of your content is
suitable. If you have large blocks of text, make sure to use CSS to space out
the lines accordingly. The longer a single line of text is, the greater the
line-height of each line should be. Also, make sure the font size of your text
is big enough to read easily. 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. We recommend 12px.
Make it easy for site visitors to find content that they want on your site. If
you have thousands of articles on your site and a certain visitor wants to find
one single article from that pile, you have to provide a feasible means to
enable visitors to do that without hassle. Be it an SQL-driven database search
engine or just a glossary or index of articles that you have, providing such a
feature will make sure your visitors can use your website easily.
Ensure that your website loads fast if you do not want to lose visitors. Most
Internet users will quickly leave a website if it doesn't load completely within
15 seconds, so make sure the most important of your pages are delivered to the
visitors as soon as possible to engage them.
Last of all, test each and every hyperlink on your site before it goes online.
There is nothing more damaging than broken links, so be very careful about that.
Free Web Design Tips from Template Trunk
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