Article Directory
Free Online Article Directory. For Article Authors & Publishers

What is Web Usability?

If you have a website, the bottom line is that you want it to be useable to your web visitors. Otherwise, you are not maximizing your potential to sell and promote your products and/or services. This is the basis of the concept of web usability.

The theory of web usability states that you need to make your site simple for users to understand. If people have to spend a great deal of time figuring out what your website is all about, they may give up and look elsewhere. You also want to make it easy for users to navigate towards the content that you want them to see. The ideal website will have a design that the user feels is intuitive. Web visitors do not mind clicking on links; they just want their experience to be easy and understandable.

Now, of course, if you have an ecommerce site, your intention is to sell products. This means that you need to have a clear, easy-to-understand process through which people can buy goods. If your web visitor cannot understand what you sell or how to add products to the shopping cart, you have a problem. In this case, you obviously going to generate far fewer sales than you would if your website was simple and easy to follow.

The general consensus is that while fancy, complex websites are interesting, they can confuse your web visitors. Perhaps a muddled website will even end up driving your customers away from your site forever. People also like websites with as little noise as possible on them.

A common slogan that is used to define web usability is “KISS,” which stands for ‘keep it simply and stupid” or “keep it simple, stupid.” You want your user’s web experience to be as simple as possible. This means that if your website visitor wants to search something on your site, there should be a clear and easy way to search. If you have text for people to read, it should be as minimal of an amount of text as possible.

When considering how your website should look and function, these theories of web usability should be seriously considered. The goal of a website is typically to promote a product or service. If you have a great looking website that no one can figure out how to use, you have ultimately not achieved your goal.



Author Resource:- JYD - Calgary Web Design
, Calgary Web Design
Submitted 2010-05-04 18:40:39
By: Albert Baker 99 or more times read
Article Read 137 Times
Article From
Article Listed
[Valid RSS feed]  Albert Baker's Author Feed
http://www.articlelisted.com/author-rss-feed.php?rss=7851
[Valid RSS feed]  Category Rss Feed
http://www.articlelisted.com/rss.php?rss=94

Related Articles

HTML Ready Article. Click on the "Copy" button to copy into your clipboard.




Firefox users please select/copy/paste as usual
Actions
Print This Article
Add To Favorites


Navigation
select
Home
select
Sign up
select
Login
select
Submit Articles
select
Submission Guidelines
select
learn more
select
Top Articles
select
About Us
select
Contact Us
select
Privacy Policy
select
RSS Feeds
   
Submit Your Articles To Our Other Article Directory
Morefreeinformation.com