Web Usability Design

Driving a New Car, & Website Usability

Ever gotten into someone else’s car, thinking it should be easy to drive, only to be baffled and lost by the controls? I spent an entire day driving three different cars with about a two hour drive each. Not by choice, not by plan. One of our cars, the one I don’t drive, was noticeably

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What’s Best for Your Web Copy? Widgets or Pages?

Many small businesses today are ditching their Web 1.0 static websites in favor of content management system (CMS) sites, such as WordPress websites (in fact I’m building three such websites for customers now). The functionality and widget capabilities in WordPress are attractive – yet they can often go overboard! Here’s what I would recommend for gauging when and how it’s appropriate to use a widget versus web page content display options:

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Top Signs of Good Web Usability

Over the years I’ve given web and branding advise to a number of companies, as well as having designed and built client websites. Lately, I’ve noticed a number of corporate sites to be, in my opinion, too-narrowly focused. These are sites which actually profess their own brand names well and use deep-niche, industry relevant terminology…

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