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Incor­rect increase in a photo:

According to results of voting on 10th place there should be pop-up win­dows. Instead, I wish to pay atten­tion to one problem which has received smaller quan­tity of voices, and still not less important.

One of the chec­ked most up rules f usability demands com­mer­cial sites to give to the buyer pos­sibility to enlarge goods photo that it could be con­sidered is bet­ter. Survey of trifles or an estimation of texture of the goods will con­vince the buyer that these goods can be bought on the given site.

It is pleasant to see that the majority of sites submit to this rule and offer the enlar­ged photos of the goods which disap­pear under an icon with the mag­nifier map more often. But many sites realize this fun­ction incorrectly.

Worst of all, when the user, clic­king the but­ton “to enlarge a photo”, sees the same photo. Units which do nothing always are an error. Such links and but­tons in vain take place, in vain was­ted time and total con­fusion “What hap­pens? And even the more widesp­read error is the link, on the main page which car­ries on the main page.

Other almost same gross error is made by sites which enlarge a photo only on a per­cent share. If the visitor has asked the big photo, and give it the big photo. It iss bet­ter if this photo on the sizes coin­cides with the most widesp­read sizes of the screen for your users (1024?768 for com­mer­cial sites of type B2C). In other cases even it is not enough of it, and then the visitor should be offered some small pictures in integrated with details that it had not to scroll for this pur­pose upwards-downwards the big photo.

Yes, on a start page there should be small photos that the design was tidy. Yes, always it is neces­sary to remem­ber speed of downloading and page “weight”. Even in our cen­tury of the high-speed Inter­net slow speed of downloading appears in the list of errors of web design. But, when users obviously ask to show them the big photo, they obviously agree to wait, while it will boot… Except for only those cases when con­trary to waiting them I receive a photo of the average size on which the trifles are not visible, allowing making solution on purchase.

Back to web design bases
It is necessary:

* that it was con­venient to read the text;

* that the con­tent of pages ans­wered to the asked question;

* that navigation and search helped them to find that is neces­sary for them;

* that forms were easier and shor­ter (fast regis­tration, fast calculation for pur­chases and so forth); and

* that there were no errors, the misp­rints, the dis­tor­ted data, the broken links, an out-of-date content;

These days the Inter­net tech­nologies are very popular. The web network is not only a place to enter­tain but also a spot to make money. Whatever the reason is, to be presen­ted in the Inter­net one needs a site. And this is when the ques­tion how to make a website arises. Those who are looking for info on how to build a website, should refer to the Inter­net itself. There are lots of guides on how to make a website and res­pective topics.

In any way, it wouldn’t be smart not to use this oppor­tunity provided to us by modern tech­nologies. Google and other search engines, social networks and forums, blogs — all of them could assist to find info on “where to make a website” and similar topics.

1. Bulky forms

I have received set of com­plaints to the problems lin­ked to forms. What? Forms are too often used in Web and they often appear too big, with set of unneces­sary ques­tions and variants. By large for Web applications something is required to us lar­ger, than an old metaphor of the application. Well for now users should face forms therefore make so that this meeting has pas­sed as it is pos­sible without serious con­sequen­ces. Here five main rules about it:

* Delete all super­fluous ques­tions. For exam­ple, so you need to know, properly to access to the user: Mr., Mrs. or Ms.?

* Make man­datory only that field which is precisely neces­sary to you.

* Sup­port auto filling fun­ction in a browser. For this pur­pose select for fields from a html-code usual names (sim­ply name, address, etc.)

* Install the cur­sor automatically on the first floor of the form. So one click by a mouse is saved.

* Flexibly sup­port a for­mat of telephone num­bers, num­bers of credit cards and so forth After all very sim­ply to program the com­puter that he deleted super­fluous brac­kets and blanks in num­bers. It is especially impor­tant in cases with older per­sons when sites demand from them the data in an unusual for­mat for them. What for to lose the order only what the buyer prefers to group beautifully digits on four in num­ber of the credit card, instead of to enter their con­tinuous stream from 14 digits?

The forms breaking rules of inter­natio­nalization, called set of cen­sures in foreign users. If on your site input of the Canadian pos­tal index leads to an error, don’t be surp­rised that for you not too it is a lot of clients from Canada.

2. Absence of the con­tact infor­mation or the other infor­mation about the company

In spite of the fact that now as the con­tact infor­mation ask a phone num­ber and an e-mail address more often, presence of the usual mail address on a site can appear much more impor­tant, than a phone num­ber and email as it is one of tags on which visitors form a degree of belief to you. Who from you is ready to entrust the money of the com­pany which hides the address where it is?

How it is bet­ter to submit con­tact infor­mation, esteem article «About us» — how to rep­resent the infor­mation on the organization on a site and article “Helping Users Find Physical Locations”

3. Moc­kups of pages with the fixed width

Here com­plaints are shared on two categories:

* On the big screen monitors with web sites it was incon­venient to work, as they are not become wider at a wide win­dow. And on the con­trary, if user there was a small screen monitor, and the page was not “rubber” on width, there was an intolerable bar of horizon­tal scrolling.

* the Right part of the fixed page appeared cut off. It especially irritated Europeans who use nar­rower for­mat of a paper (?4), than that is used in the USA

Nowadays the online tech­nologies are very popular. The web network is not only a place to enter­tain but also a spot to make money. Whatever the reason is, to be presen­ted in the Inter­net one needs a site. And this is when the ques­tion how to make a website arises. Those who are looking for details on how to build a website, are advised to refer to the Web itself. It is full of tutorials on how to make a website and related topics.

In any way, it wouldn’t be wise not to use this oppor­tunity given to us by digital tech­nologies. Google and other search engines, social networks and forums, blogs — all of them could assist to find info on “where to make a website” and similar topics.

Inter­net gives a lot of oppor­tunities to earn money on your own web site. The world net has been changing since the day of its development, and if the Inter­net used to be the space where you could get infor­mation for free, then now it is like a huge mar­ket where you can earn rather good income. There are many ways to make your site bring profit to you, but we will look through the five basic ways of making your site profitable.

The first way — you can sell your own products or services via your web site.
You can create a com­mer­cial web site and to promote and sell goods or services on it. Actually creating a com­mer­cial web site needs a lot of time, hard work and expen­ses, so if you think only to start on line business, then it is bet­ter not to start with com­mer­cial web sites.

The second way — you can provide for space fro adver­tising on your web site.
This is one of the most widesp­read and traditio­nal ways of get­ting profit. A lot of mer­chants always look for space where they can replace the adver­tisement of their on line busines­ses. But you must have strong site to be able to sell space for adver­tisement. You can get weekly or mon­thly payment for the space on your web site or you may use the sys­tem of pay per click, which means that you get a small amount of money every time someone clicks on adver­tisements placed on your site.

The third way — to create paid con­tent offering on your site.
You can earn money on creating unique and useful con­tent, users will pay for viewing the con­tent offering. A mem­ber­ship site is a good exam­ple of paid content.

The fourth way — email mar­keting.
This way has become very popular for last time. You use email addres­ses of other users to let them know about the goods you are selling or services you are providing.

The fifth way — affiliate mar­keting.
This is the most preferable way for those who only start on line business. In the field of affiliate mar­keting you do not have to pur­chase goods, to promote them and to look for cus­tomers to buy your goods. You work as a reseller between a cus­tomer and an owner of an on line store for exam­ple. Users may look through reviews of some products on your web site, the reviews come along with your affiliate link that sends users to the site of the mer­chant. You get com­mis­sions from every sale made through your site.

So, if you only start making money on line, affiliate mar­keting will be the best solution for you. Of course you need to learn a lot about how to create web sites and how to make affiliate mar­keting profitable.

Cur­rently the web tech­nologies are very popular. The Inter­net network is not only a place to enter­tain but also a platform to make money. Whatever the reason is, to be presen­ted in the Inter­net one needs a site. And it is the time when the ques­tion how to plan a website arises. Those who are looking for info on how to build a website, are advised to refer to the Web itself. It is full of guides on how to plan a website and related topics.

In any way, it wouldn’t be wise not to use this oppor­tunity given to us by digital tech­nologies. Google and other search engines, social networks and forums, blogs — all of them could help to find infor­mation on “business plan for website” and similar topics.

1. Flash:

I con­sider as the per­sonal failure that Flash has received a gold medal in this com­petition. Has already pas­sed three years since that moment as I have urged developers to cor­rect essen­tial problems with Flash and has published a manual how it is neces­sary cor­rectly to use it. When I addres­sed to the main con­ference of Flash-developers, practically all have agreed that the exces­sive hobby Flash should sink into oblivion and that Flash can give in the future to users con­venient user interface.

At all these good inten­tions the most part of Flash-developments which should face web users, are sim­ple hand-made articles which only irritate people, without bringing any advan­tage. Pleases only that screens-prompts and flash-pictures have practically died out. They were so har­mful, what even the most unsophis­ticated web desig­ners are not taken to do them though there are still cus­tomers (even more unsophis­ticated) which wish to see such pictures on the sites.

Flash is a sof­tware environment and it should be used so that users received additio­nal fun­ctions and pos­sibilities which can­not give them static pages. Flash it is not neces­sary to use only that on page something ran and jum­ped. If the con­tent of your page is boring, copy the text to make it bet­ter, employ the profes­sio­nal photographer that that has made bet­ter photos. Do not force the page to dance cha-cha. It will not involve atten­tion of the user, on the con­trary — it will leave from your page; the majority of people equate animation to a useless content.

Usage Flash in navigation almost always is an error. People prefer predicted navigation and static menus.

2. The con­tent which has been not writ­ten specially for Web

Writing for Web means:

* to write shortly

* to write so that the text was con­venient for viewing

* to write precisely to a subject (instead of to fill space with adver­tising noise)

The text for Web should:

* ans­wer ques­tions of users
* use for this pur­pose a sim­ple language without special terms (it also imp­roves visibility of yours the text in sear­chers as users search for the documents neces­sary to them by the words, instead of under your specific terms)

3. Bad search

All other errors in the are list sim­ply enough to cor­rect, and only cor­rection of search demands the big operation and con­siderable expen­ses on qualitative retrieval. Never­theless, expen­ses pay off, as search is a fun­damen­tal com­ponent of operation of the web user with a site, and every year this com­ponent all becomes more impor­tant and more important.

6. Incom­patibility of browsers

I recog­nize: during the seminars in the spring of 2004 I have assig­ned to the requirement of cross-platform com­patibility one star (that meant — “it is neces­sary to think of it but only in the event that there is super­fluous time, and in general — is not man­datory”). At that time practical all used the Inter­net Explorer and in sup­port of other browsers was more and more estimated as the super­fluous expen­ditures which are not bringing profits.

Today many people use browser Firefox (and others not such widesp­read products, as Opera and Safari) that the requirement of sup­port of different browsers again in the agenda: do not frighten off the clients only because they prefer to work on other platform.

Nowadays the Inter­net tech­nologies are very popular. The Inter­net network is not only a place to enter­tain but also a spot to earn money. Whatever the reason is, to be presen­ted in the Inter­net one needs a site. And it is the time when the ques­tion how to make a website arises. Those who are looking for details on how to build a website, are advised to refer to the Inter­net itself. It is full of tutorials on how to make a website and related topics.

In any way, it wouldn’t be smart not to avail them­selves of this chance given to us by modern tech­nologies. Google and other search engines, social networks and forums, blogs — all of them could help to find info on “make a new website” and similar topics.

Main errors of web design

Briefly: In the list still our old acquain­tan­ces it is errors which con­tinue to sup­ply troubles to users and in 2005.

For the given list of the worst errors of web design I have decided to try something new: I have acces­sed to readers of my mailing list with the request to name those problems of usability which in their opinion are the most irritating.

I have assumed that, acces­sing with such request to readers, I will manage to reveal set of such details which escaped me during my tests with users. But it has appeared that it is not so. Instead I have received the list from all same items which occupy the upper 30 lines in for a long time already exis­ting list of guidelines on usability. Therefore, if you, viewing given web design errors, will catch your­self on a thought “Yes, I know for a long time already it”, it is normal.

And still there is a reason in remin­ding to you of known errors and to put their cor­rection on the first place in the list of cur­rent affairs. These errors are still so widesp­read that is clear, why people con­tinue to com­plain of them.

1. A problem with readership:

The error has come out on top in a choice of a font with over­whel­ming advan­tage. It has received twice more voices, than an error ?2. App­roximately two thirds of voting com­plained of too small print or on the fixed font size; app­roximately one third — on small con­trast between color of a font and a background.

How the flexible font size imp­roves reader­ship of the text, the Font size let see article “users”, writ­ten in 2002 select.

2. Non-standard links

Here are five main rules for links:

* Clearly specify on page that is the link: if it is the text, let it will be colored and under­lined (do not use under­line for the usual text)

* do not hide dis­tin­ction between the visited and not visited links

* Explain to users that they will detect, having followed the link, add though a little key infor­mation in the text of the link that the con­tent could be scan­ned easily to the per­son and the retrieval robot. Do not use in the link the text “to click here” or other speaking phrases similar anything.

* Avoid usage JavaScript in links, and also other refined recep­tions which break stan­dard interaction with the link.

* In par­ticular do not open page in new win­dows (except for PDF-files and so forth)

Links is the first unit of interaction in Web. Breaking habitual operation of the link, you con­fuse users, and it com­plicates it operation with your site.

Today the web tech­nologies are very popular. The Inter­net network is not only a place to enter­tain but also a platform to make money. Whatever the reason is, to be presen­ted in the Inter­net one needs a site. And it is the time when the ques­tion how to make a website arises. Those who are sear­ching for details on how to build a website, should refer to the Web itself. There are lots of tutorials on how to make a website and res­pective topics.

In any way, it wouldn’t be smart not to take advan­tage of this chance given to us by modern tech­nologies. Google and other search engines, social networks and forums, blogs — all of them could assist to find info on “make a new website” and similar topics.