Website Usability by Design

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Website Usability by Design

Aspect Training
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Description

Our public scheduled sessions are held in Leatherhead, Surrey and any of our courses can be run as a closed course on your site or on one of ours nationwide.

 

Overview:

Aspect Training's Website Usability by Design one day course looks at web usability through the

application of engineering principles to web site design. Its primary objective is to enable

organisations to formulate and implement a web site strategy which will raise their website's

productivity well above the norm.

Unlike our purely technical web site design courses, its emphasis is on discovery, discussion and

evaluation of the technologies and concepts involved rather than on practical/craft skills

Prerequisites:

This course is recommended for:

  • · Web site design professionals who want attract more visitors to their web site and convert a

higher proportion of those visi…

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Didn't find what you were looking for? See also: Website Development, Usability, Two Dimensional Design (2D Design), FrontPage, and Web Accessibility.

Our public scheduled sessions are held in Leatherhead, Surrey and any of our courses can be run as a closed course on your site or on one of ours nationwide.

 

Overview:

Aspect Training's Website Usability by Design one day course looks at web usability through the

application of engineering principles to web site design. Its primary objective is to enable

organisations to formulate and implement a web site strategy which will raise their website's

productivity well above the norm.

Unlike our purely technical web site design courses, its emphasis is on discovery, discussion and

evaluation of the technologies and concepts involved rather than on practical/craft skills

Prerequisites:

This course is recommended for:

  • · Web site design professionals who want attract more visitors to their web site and convert a

higher proportion of those visitors into paying customers.

  • · Technical managers and commercial directors who want to know why their web site is

under-performing and how to dramatically raise its return on investment, through the

pragmatic application of web usability techniques.

  • · Web site content providers and editors who want to build usability methods into their

everyday practice

Course Topics:

Introduction to web site usability

Pragmatism and methodology

Art versus engineering

Why everyone gets web site design wrong the

first time

Page design issues in web usability

Screen space: the scarcest resource

User controlled presentation

Screen resolution

Standard and non-standard content

Application versions

Data lifetimes

Response times

Connections and partial downloads

Link descriptions

Link titles

Link colours

Link consistency and site structure

Link expectations

Outbound links

Inbound links

Linking to subscriptions and registrations

Linking from adverts

Stylesheets for consistency

Stylesheets for separating content from

presentation

Fonts and font sizes

Text size

Frames: just say no

Frames: more reasons to say no

If you must use frames

Printing issues

Web usability testing

Statistics and methods

Whom to test

When and where to test

The test cycle

Conducting a test

Observing a test

Interpreting and using results

Using results

Intranets, accessibility, internationalisation

and usability

Extranets

Intranets

Accessibility

Visual disabilities

Auditory and speech disabilities

Motor and cognitive disabilities

Internationalisation and cultural difference

Content issues in web site usability

Content is critical and web content is different

The value of an editor

Discursive style

Keeping texts short

Checking and copy editing

Scannability

Plain English

Managing long texts by chunking

Page titles

Headings, sub-headings, and pull quotes

Legibility

Understanding image formats

Reducing image file sizes

Multimedia and plugins

Animation

Animation pitfalls

Video

Audio

Downloading and streaming

3D

Conclusion: the attention economy

Navigation and searching in web site

usability

From page design to site design

Homepages are over-estimated

Splash screens — just say no

Navigation: the three big questions

Where am I?

Where have I been?

Where can I go?

Creating and revealing site structure

Reducing navigational clutter

Managing subsites or sections

Search-dominant versus link-dominant users

Implementing searching

Presenting search results

Search term usage

Search destination design

Presenting URLs and domain names

Archival and old URLs

Executable links and URLs

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