Web design
The User Experience at Your Website
Tom and I are working on a very fun e-commerce website right now. The owners are fun, their products are fun, the customers are fun, it’s just a fun project all around. At the moment, the owners probably aren’t having any fun at all.
How Many Pages Does Your Website Need?
The short answer to this question is: more. As long as you have good content to fill them with, more pages will always be good. Search engines love fresh content, human beings like to find new things when they explore — there’s really no downside.
Does Your Website Need a Team?
Yesterday I was talking with some friends about working teams. The people involved in the conversation were as follows: the director of an airport, a high school music teacher, the director of a nonprofit, and me.
How Fun Should Your Website Be?
Marshall Farrier wrote that it’s important to have the correct levels of fun at your website. “Weaknesses in the fun department can result either from over-emphasizing its importance or from neglecting it entirely,” he cautions.
Planning Your Web Forms, part I
Web forms have been on my mind a lot lately. I’m working on forms for a couple of IT companies, FileReplicationPro and Onsharp. There are two big questions when you plan your web form. The first is what information to include or request. As a general rule, people get antsy if you ask too many…
Planning a Website for Older Users
I’m working with designer Jon Schleuss on a website for the local chapter of the American Association of University Women, an organization to which I belong and which I support wholeheartedly.