Internet users make up their minds about the quality of a website in the blink of an eye, a study shows. Researchers found that the brain makes decisions in just a 20th of a second of viewing a webpage. They were surprised as they believed it would take at least 10 times longer to form an opinion. The study, published in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology, also suggests that first im...

How can you boost your web site's credibility?We have compiled 10 guidelines for building the credibility of a web site. These guidelines are based on three years of research that included over 4,500 people.Guideline1. Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site.You can build web site credibility by providing third-party support (citations, references, source material) for ...

This article aims to demonstrate the advantages in learning modern web design techniques, focusing on CSS. We'll learn what CSS is, explore the business factors in building websites in a modern way and find out how much easier and beneficial it is to design using CSS. What this article isn't is a guide on how to make websites with CSS.So what is CSS?CSS (Cascading style sheets) in very basic terms...

A site should be innovative in design and content, but, when it comes to usability, a slightly conservative mindset is the best option.Your visitors are used to particular ways of navigating sites and entering data in forms. If you keep it simple by sticking to those well-known ways, you're reasonably certain that most of your users will understand how your site works.In practice, this may mean co...

Before you staring the web design and development process of a website you need to do some planning. You need to make sure that your site will meet the needs of your visitors and yours as well. Many people tend to put together a website, and within a month or two they need to do major redesigns and rewriting. This takes twice as much time as was necessary just because no proper plan was in place.F...

According to the 2001 UK census, the UK now has more people aged over 60 than under 16. It also revealed that there are now 1.1 million people aged over 85 in the UK -- and the trend toward an ageing population is common in many other western countries.We recently analysed and compared the results of 16 usability testing sessions. Eight of these sessions were conducted with older users (i.e. over ...

With the growth of the internet, email marketing has become an increasingly popular medium for getting the word out there about your businesses. But, as more and more businesses turn to email marketing, email recipients are getting more and more fed up with the relentless attacks on their inboxes. Unwanted email from your business, falling into the right hands, can be a marketing nightmare. PR cha...

Creating good web site navigation is the most important task a web designer has to accomplish in the web design process. Web site navigation is the pathway people take to navigate through sites. It must be well constructed, easy to use and intuitive. Poor navigation does not help users and often, your site can prove to be less accessible than others.Good navigation is fundamental to good web desig...

Using standard HTML code means ensuring that the web site is written in 100% correct syntax. W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium has published specifications regarding HTML/XHTML and guidelines on how to use them to the best effect. W3C's involvement in this particular area of web development had primary as purpose the standardisation of correct HTML code usage.Validation of HTML codeFor web develo...

You've heard of the KISS principle? Keep It Simple Silly. This applies doubly for websites. Designing web sites can make you want to use every feature and every new trick. Just because you can create a flashy effect, doesn't mean you should!!It is nice to be able to create complex frames and tables, use large busy fonts, use flash and animated GIFs, but will end up with too many features competing...