50 Tips To A User Friendly Website
By Chris Cardinal
On February 10th, 2009
I posted about the Designing Interactive usability blog a few months back. Josh Walsh at D-I has compiled a nice list of 50 tips to a user-friendly website that you should definitely check out.
I agree with almost all of them, like Clicking on the logo should take you to the home page—this has become a convention most people expect on a given site, along with highlighting your current location in the navigation bar. There are a few, however, that I might nitpick, such as always underline links, except some navigational cases (unless he means either on hover or the regular state; I note quietly that the links on his blog are text-decoration:none and only underline on hover).
Either way, it’s a great, quick read with some things to always keep in mind when building a website, so take a look and subscribe.
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Thanks for the writeup Chris.
I do agree with you about hover links. I really believe that links should be underlined by default in many cases, not just on hover, but it’s starting to become more of a standard to simply change the color and underline on hover.
Thank you for the list, i alwayss thought usability is one of the key points, for you can bring much traffic with SEO tips but there will be no sales from the site or feedback to blog if users cannot find anything on the site.
Nice Post! Having a user friendly website is a big profit.