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Website Usability
"Usability" refers to the ease with which people can use a website in order to achieve their goal. Principles of usability help people of all abilities, using any web browser, to make the most of the content provided.
Review Your Site's Usability: Ask yourself these questions as you look again at the pages of your site.
Usability Tips
Usability Guidelines for Non-Profit Web Sites covers all the basics of creating a site that's clear, clean, and easy to navigate.
Links
- Meaningful Links (do not use "click here")
- Brief Links (try for 1-3 words)
Sidebar Content
- Use Sidebar Content Sparingly (content that looks like ads tends to be ignored)
Headers and White Space
- White Space (your reader's best friend for quick scanning)
- Meaningful Headers (don't make your reader "work")
Fonts
- Limited Bold (bold text causes eye fatigue)
- Plain Links (underlined text is already harder to read)
- Lower Case (don't "shout" at your readers while reducing their comprehension)
Images
- Best Images (some images lend themselves to web use better than others)
"Under Construction"
- Don't create pages (or links to pages) that have no content or that are "under construction." Instead, there are two good options to minimize user frustration.
For more information contact web@uua.org.
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Last updated on Wednesday, March 14, 2012.
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