When I read Jakob Nielsen recently published article "Ten Most Violated HomePage Design Guidelines", I am very surprised that these include basic, common sense available methods, as well as authors View. (Although I am not his fascination about Web availability and his guidance specification, his research is effective, his article is also guided.)
According to Jakob Nielsen, only about 1/3 of the Web site follows these basic availability specifications. However, his survey mainly biases a large-scale site with powerful funds for availability testing, so this data may become smaller in the reality of smaller sites.
I am not a list of re-change faces to repeat his unreasonable specification, but I have to point out some obvious usability negligence, and you can easily fix these negligers.
Add a simple site description in the window title
Web visitor may not pay attention to the web header of the web browser title bar, but in the search engine order and search results, the web title is generally summarized. Therefore, the information of each page contains information, which means that the profound web title is an essential component of either search engine optimization program. If the web visitor rely on the search engine, the web header will become the most basic usability tool. Adding a title in the Web browser title bar and taskbar is a desirable measure.
Use colors to distinguish links that have been accessed and not accessible
Since the web text hyperlink can change the color to display a link that the visitor has accessed. This color change will become the feature of helping visitors locate their access location and procedures.
Now, web developers are gradually using CSS way to redefine the default link color, and they rarely follow the independent colors that have been accessed and have no access links. Amendment This simple negligence can provide visitors with an image of web page review.
Adopting transparent layout allows users to adjust home page size
Designers generally want to control the relationship between the various graphics windows on a page, and the easiest way to achieve this idea is to use a fixed-size layout. The size of the web browser window is not fixed, the recognition, no matter which fixed layout size is selected, many website access can view the web page via a browser window that does not match the web page size. Some users can also browse the entire web page through the scroll bar in a small window.
Transparent pages can be expanded, contracted, reset to meet the entire form - Change the browser form size is the best way to transmit a web page that meets the visitor's browser window. The well-designed transparent layout is challenging, but the results are usually worthwhile. A good transparent layout not only makes your site more availability, but the appearance of the site is also more beautiful.
Don't add an activity link to the homepage in the home page
Maybe you think that adding an activity link to the home page of Home Page (Home Page Page), even think is a set of navigation links with compatibility sites, but if visitors want This activity link will lead to a chaotic result when they know their location in the site. For example, the link to the home page will make the visitors think they are currently not in the homepage location, but clicking this link can also enable them into a new location. They don't know if they are already in the home page, or because the link has been damaged without reaching this page.
If you are using a navigation button toolbar, you can easily fix this problem, the button is set to a "Down" or "Clicked" profile in the current page. This method actually increases the availability of the site by providing visualization display for the visitor. For plain text links, move the link to the current page easier.
