Posts Tagged usability

In a bit of irony, Wildfire to the rescue

So how many of you have a site and absolutely love it? For some of us, it’s second nature. We can sit down crank out a site based on how we envisioned it on our heads. However, for some other folks, it’s not quite that simple. One of the challenges with building a website is [...]

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Using words in permalinks is a pretty big deal

How many of you thought about what your permalinks, aka URLs, looked like when you first started your site? Usually this is a pretty low on the thought totem pole. However, once you’re up and running, have you ensured that you have went back to optimize your permalinks for past, present, and future? I know [...]

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The Ten Commandments of Blogging

1. This is your blog, you shall treat it with respect. Run the blog like a business. That means whatever time and energy you decide to dedicate to it, find a way to keep that motivation up in the long haul. It’s a lot of work with very little results in the beginning … Related [...]

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Navigation can affect more than just your visitors

We all know that poor navigation can not only impede your visitors’ ability to move around on your site but it can also affect their willingness to come back. However, did you know how critical your navigation is when it comes to how search engines see your site? As a judge … Related Posts on [...]

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9 things you can do to speed up your site

Is there such thing as a site that’s too fast? If you’ve been keeping up, my last article was about Pingdom, which pointed to a tool that allowed you to check the speed of any of your pages. I also mentioned that if your site is too slow, you’d quickly see visitors abandon your site, [...]

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Do you know how fast (or slow) your site is?

Look, we’ve all been there. We do a search, see a link that we believe has the content that we’re looking for, and click. Then wait. Then wait some more. And if we’re really patient, we gave it a whole 5 seconds to load before we click the back button. So how we can measure [...]

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9 simple things to make your site more usable

It’s that time of year again! This is my 10th year as a judge for the Web Marketing Association. Throughout the last decade, I’ve watched the evolution of static websites to web 2.0. Regardless of era, usability has always been a primary focus when I judge sites. These are websites from major corporations, you know, [...]

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