This is the first of a three part series on what skip links are, and how they can improve your site's accessibility and usability. By incorporating these into your site, you make it easier for users to move about, plus they are a good sign of a qu

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One of the best ways to draw and keep visitors to your site is to write good content. However, what if your content can't be read easily or understood?

This post gives you 30 areas of accessibility and usability items to check on your site for

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This is the third and last article on the series and I am going to show you how to create hidden skip links for your site. If you want to show your skip links, there are numerous methods to do so, and I won’t cover them here as each site design is u

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There have been thousands of books and articles written outlining, explaining, and defining the elements of a good web site design. Many usability experts even go so far as to dictate the acceptable size of various common web site elements down to the pixel. Everyone has their "fool-proof" checklist of parts that, when added together, shou

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Tied to the internet productivity movement is the internet uncluttering movement. There are a slew of new websites dedicated to helping you unclutter your home, your work and your life.

I want to contribute to this movement with a manifesto for defeating blog clutter. Blog clutter is the stuff your readers really don’t need, and it serves

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I have seen many blogs, some popular ones that missed some very basic functionality. In this post, I am writing about the 7 key features or plugins that any blog should have. From the usability perspective, any visitor should see and use these items. Some of them come for granted with any CMS package, but are missing in wordpress. Of course t

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Watch movies to understand visitor behavior, gain valuable insights and improve your website's usability. Feature :

* No install. Setup takes less than five minutes.
* Show you movies of visitors' every mouse movement, every click and every scrolling action.
* Show what visitors look at inside your webpage and how far down

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This week's list features quite a diverse set of articles, ranging from practical code snippets to online social networking trends. I thought Logic+Emotion's post about "infinite touch points" was especially insightful. It raises some interesting questions about the future of company/client communication. Also, Small Farm Design makes it

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In the spring 2005 I decided that having a talk worthy website is a critical advantage for an independent web designer. That realization prompted me to build the latest iteration of Liquid Design Media—the web site for my design studio. All the top search engine marketing and usability experts would disagree with almost every decision I made

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I posted an article written by Gobala Krishnan and it's all about How WordPress is better than Blogger. He describes in plain simple terms the benefits and usability of Wordpress over Blogger.

WordPress takes over Blogger in many aspects. like, Ease of Set-up And Use, Customization & Advanced Use, Search Engine Optimization and Traffic, M

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I'm going to give you an inside look at this new affiliate network that just launched to the public yesterday. If you're already a part of CJ, Azoogle, NeverBlueAds, etc. and you're making some sales, you should definitely take a look at this network. I will review both the pros and cons of this program. The AJAX driven interface is cool...

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Affiliate marketing wouldn’t work as a business model without proper affiliate networks in place to act as a medium between merchants and affiliates. Of course, with any middleman involved, things fall between the cracks and what results is a mediocre usability experience. Not so with Pepperjam Network though, which launched in full fervour y

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There are so many wordpress plugins out there, it is very easy to get lost and crazy. Actually, there is a plugin for everything (even battlestar galactica!).
But having many plugins slows down the performance of your blog and it just clutters it with visuals, which distract the reader from the content.
This is a list of the

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Did you know that creating accessible web designs is amazingly enough like creating a SEO rich site?  You might be thinking "what the hell is accessibility"?  Hey, thanks for asking!

Mike Cherim at Green-Beast.com is a great accessibility expert when it comes to wordpress sites.  His knowledge

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Comments are an essential part of any blog, as they encourage a sense of community and add valuable content. This post teaches you how to customize your  blog's comment section for usability and reader enjoyment through several wordpress plugins.

It's about making the commenting process fun and rewarding for you

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