General WebSite Design Tips
How to Design and Maintain a Successful Website Tips
Creating a website is easy. Making it effective and profitable takes smarts. Following this guide can make a significant impact on how your website and thus, your business is perceived by your visitors. Making a website that is user friendly, intuitive and easy to navigate, and above all offers rich, valuable content can have a significant impact on your business' bottom line. Here are some tips!
How to Design a Successful and Useful Website Tips
Avoid Putting Employee Information on Your Public Website
Focusing your public website on information for the public – not on information specific to your company’s employees – is a best practice for managing your company's website. Use intranets or extranets to provide information for your employees.
Why It’s Important:
• Real estate on your public website – particularly the homepage – is valuable and should be focused on the most important needs of the public, not of company employees.
• It can confuse the public to post information intended for employees on your public site.
By focusing on information for the public -- rather than employees -- you will help the public find what they need more efficiently and improve your services to them.
How to Implement
• If your company's public website has content that is intended only for your company's employees, move the content to an intranet or to an extranet, with password protection.
• If your company or organization doesn't have or cannot acquire an intranet or extranet, then work to put employee information in a separate, clearly labeled part of your website. This will show the public that the information is not intended for them.
• If your website has content that is valuable to both the public and employees, it's fine to post that information on the public website.
To download each chapter in PDF format click on the links below:
Chapter 1: Design Process and Evaluation
Chapter 2: Optimizing the User Experience
Chapter 3: Accessibility
Chapter 4: Hardware and Software
Chapter 5: The Homepage
Chapter 6: Page Layout
Chapter 7: Navigation
Chapter 8: Scrolling and Paging
Chapter 9: Headings, Titles, and Labels
Chapter 10: Links
Chapter 11: Text Appearance
Chapter 12: Lists
Chapter 13: Screen-Based Controls (Widgets)
Chapter 14: Graphics, Images, and Multimedia
Chapter 15: Writing Web Content
Chapter 16: Content Organization
Chapter 17: Search
Chapter 18: Usability Testing
Provided to you by Roberto Espinoza and Patricia Espinoza at: CPC Computer Consultants, Inc.
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