The Guide - Making Usable Websites

Making Usable Websites

	Introduction
	Print Vs. Web A comparison
	Reading on the Web
	Writing for the Web
	Color Usage
	Heuristics and Metrics
	Things to avoid
	Conclusions

Related Links

1.	Jakob Nielsen's Website Usable Information Technology
2.	WebDesignClinicA good resource site
3.	Customer in sites.Customer friendly sites.
4.	Design better Web Sites
5.	Collection of ResourcesFor Web Designers
6.	Global TrendsProvides stats for different items related to WEB
7.	Counter for your WEB Site
8.	Web Authoring Resources To assist you.

Making Usable Websites:

Writing for the Web

As a result web pages have to employ scannable text, using

highlighted keywords

meaningful sub-headings

bulleted lists

small paragraphs (chunking) conveying one idea

start with a conclusion (Inverted pyramid style)

50% of regular number of words

On 14.4 Kbps a 10K page takes about 10 secs to load. Thus we have

0 -10K : exemplary
10-20K : well-optimized
20-40K : adequate
40-60K : dubious
> 60K : unacceptable

Human factors study suggests that the page size must be less than 30K. These sizes are inclusive of graphics. A 72 Dpi graphics takes 3950 bytes. Every 25 Dpi increase requires 3K increase in size approximately.

Color Usage