Hello Visitors,
I receive articles every day into my inbox. The most useful articles about web site design and web sites in general, I post here. This directory will grow over time.
If you have an informative article written that you'd like me to link to, please contact me about it.
Sincerely,
Heather Goff
Useful Articles:
- Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, October 17, 2005
Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author.
- Building a Web Site Worksheet
I have copied this work sheet directly from a web site (virtual adviser) that has a wonderful animated tutorial on what you need to consider BEFORE building a website: http://va-interactive.com/score/buildwebsite/ (will open in new browser window). This is a very instructive animation that will answer a lot of your web design questions before you visit your web site designer. These are many of the topics that I cover with clients during our initial free one hour consultation.
- Passive Income
Oh how wonderful it would be if we could just sit back and let our web sites earn money for us, without having to lift a finger! Even the occasional nickel and dime to help pay the hosting costs, or finance a cup of coffee. I have numerous clients who ask me about passive income, so I decided to explore several avenues, and here is what I learned.
- Virtual Tours: The next best thing to being there
Article by Michael Antoniak about creating virtual tours for your real estate site. This article contains links to many resources.
- Search Engine Optimization for RSS Feeds
Article by Sharon Housley of www.feedforall.com
- Search Engines & Directories Free Website Submissions
Quanta Web Design put together this extensive list of directories where you can submit your site for free.
- Dodgy referrers in your stats?
Are you one of those people who check your web statistics and referring sites frequently? Ever find a referring site that is sleazy? and wonder why on earth it links to yours? I just came across this post in webproworld that explains why those links show up every now and then.
- Lower-Literacy Users - Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for March 14
Lower-literacy users exhibit very different reading behaviors than
higher-literacy users: they plow text rather than scan it, and
they miss page elements due to a narrower field of view.
- Deep Linking Strategies for Content Sites
- Design your site for traffic in 2005
- What's the difference between ISP, Hosting, Domain Registration?
Confused about the lingo? Here's an article I put together to try to explain what it all means.
- Internet Glossary
The internet has brought with it a vocabulary all its own, and sometimes it's hard to understand what you're reading about. I have started to put together a glossary of terms that you might run into to. I will be adding to this over time.
- The Most Hated Advertising Techniques
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, December 6, 2004
Studies of how people react to online advertisements have identified several design techniques that impact the user experience very negatively.
- Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, August 25, 2003:
What is usability? How, when, and where can you improve it? Why should you care? This overview answers these basic questions.
- Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.
- Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability
View a list of Jakob Nielsen's bi-weekly articles on web usability.
- Ten tips for managing a successful Web redesign
In this excerpt, Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler offer advice on overseeing a site overhaul
- Google Information for Webmasters
These web pages answer a lot of questions you may have about how google works and why your web page ranking fluctuates.
- Sneaky But Legal Places To Insert Keywords...
- Making an RSS Feed
RSS is a method of distributing links to content in your web site that
you'd like others to use. In other words, it's a mechanism to "syndicate"your
content.
