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Web Usability Tests should ideally be carried out with five users or more. Website Usability Testing usually takes about two days. This includes recruiting and incentivising participants, designing user tasks, setting up equipment, carrying out the sets, analysing the results and making recommendations. If...

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Website design top 10 tips for newbies

Posted by The Geek | Posted in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) | Posted on 08-08-2009

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  • Use Dreamweaver, Fireworks/Photoshop and Flash. They are the best tools on the market.
  • Learn CSS – professional web design requires CSS.
  • Learn XHTML or at least HTML 4.01.
  • Learn PHP and MySQL. There’s a massive open source community there to help you.
  • Learn about database design.
  • Learn information architecture.
  • Learn about web usability and accessibility.
  • Google different websites for inspiration but don’t follow bad practices from poorly designed websites.
  • Test your designs in a range of web browsers.
  • Design flexible, robust and scalable web solutions.
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    Top 3 website design mistakes for SEO

    Posted by The Geek | Posted in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) | Posted on 25-07-2009

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    Here are the 3 worst website design mistakes that I’ve seen with regards to hindering SEO.

    1. Flash only website design with text only versions. Website design using only Flashstops search engine spiders from crawling.
    2. Tables for non tabular content. Tables, in website design, should be used for tabular data only. The late 90′s saw a lot of poor website design using tables for structure. The defacto standard now is CSS and XHTML using DIV tags to separate style from structure.
    3. Poor colour theory. Don’t use colours together that clash. Construct well written CSS so that users can change colour theme based on preference.
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