What is Web Site Usability?Web Site Usability addresses the relationship between web site and their users. In order for a web site to be effective, it must allow intended users to accomplish their tasks in the best way possible. In order for these web sites to work, their users must be able to employ them effectively. What makes a web site usable?Usability of web site depends on a number of factors including how well the functionality fits user needs, how well the flow through the web site fits user tasks, and how well the response of the web site fits user expectations. We can improve the web site usability by provide better user interface design. Usability is the quality of a system that makes it easy to learn, easy to use, easy to remember, error tolerant, and subjectively pleasing. Web Site Speed
The loading speed of a web site is extremely important, it represent the usability of the web site as well. Slow loading web site like a Flash Site or high graphic web site will decrease the user patience and expectation of the web site. Using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) can improve the web site loading speed, beside CSS, optimizing the website graphic into smaller file size also helps to improve the web site loading speed. Web Site Navigation
A good web site navigation for the end user, they are able to navigate to any pages within the web pages. Unfortunately, this navigation strategy will be difficult to apply on large site that contain more than 1000 pages. It will need to apply the navigation structure right to the main categories of the web site. Error Handling
Its always better to show some specific error page to tell the user what is going wrong than showing a 404 page not found error page. Browser Friendly
Try your best to make sure your web site was cross-browser. Try to concern on major browser like IE and Firefox. |
