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  • Usability Testing Approaches: A Review Of Split A/B Testing



    If you are into making serious business with your online web presence and you have advertising on your pages or you sell products or services online, making sure that your web visitors do not get lost when finding out where to click when to order, or ...
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    Robin Good - Lisa Halabi - Webcredible -- May 2




    Online Marketing: 10 Usability Findings To Increase Sales And Customer Loyalty



    Intro by Robin Good If you are into wanting to learn and understand more about what you can do to further improve the impact of your online communication strategy while adding new useful components to it, the best thing to do may be to find the ...
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    Jakob Nielsen - Useit.com -- March 23




    The Digital Divide: Issues And Possible Solutions



    The expression "digital divide" refers to the existing gap between those who can use new digital technologies and those who can’t. This is a key issue of today’s society, since it also provokes a distinction between those who can access certain information and those who are ...
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    Livia Iacolare -- January 27





    Web Site Usability Testing And Expert Usability Review: Which Is The Best Solution?



    One question we're often asked is which method is best: usability testing or expert usability reviews? Well, if they were sports cars, expert usability reviews might be a Porsche (pretty decent car and better than no car at all), but usability testing would be in a ...
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    Lisa Halabi - Webcredible -- December 13




    Web Accessibility Meets Web 2.0: What Future Ahead?



    The advent of Web 2.0 technologies, user-generated content and the increased use of delivery technologies like PDF and Flash have created a whole new category of usability and accessibility issues that challenge and clash with the design and accessibility design approaches web site designers had been ...
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    Trenton Moss - Webcredible -- October 3




    What Are Microformats And Why They Make Your Information Easier To Find



    What are Microformats? Microformats are changing the web, and how your computer goes about finding things you ask for online. By standardizing chunks of data - events, business cards, listings, even recipes, Microformats create a more structured internet. Photo credit: (c) Jon Tan The upshot of this well-tagged, structured ...
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    Michael Pick -- September 20




    Web Accessibility Guidelines: The New W3C WCAG 2.0



    Web Accessibility Guidelines: The second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is in final working draft and will soon be officially released. Version 1 of the guidelines came under much criticism for being vague, full of jargon and extremely difficult to use. Photo credit: ...
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    Trenton Moss - Webcredible -- September 9




    Interface Design: Usability And Visual Innovation Key Future Success Factors



    Increasing numbers of websites are developing new types of user interface design, taking advantage of users' increasing levels of Internet-sophistication and faster connections. These new interfaces often allow users to view and manipulate large quantities of data. The Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus interface, one of the earliest and ...
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    Tim Fidgeon - Webcredible -- August 1





    Accessible Search By Google Helps Blind Users Find What They Are Looking For



    Google Accessible Search is designed to help the visually challenged find the most relevant, useful and comprehensive information, as quickly as possible. More broadly, Google defines accessible websites and pages as content that the blind and visually challenged can use and consume using standard online web ...
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    Robin Good -- July 26




    Search Engine Optimization More Important Than Navigation Optimization? The Experts Reply



    Is optimizing site navigation become more important than search engine optimization? Does the increased use of major search engines affect the way we should design the content and navigation of our web pages? Photo credit: Ronen Prentice Hall Professional, in an article of last October entitled "The Search ...
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    Robin Good - Prentice Hall Professional -- April 20





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