Archive for November, 2009

Why People Hate Websites

As a builder or purchaser of SEO-friendly, W3C compliant websites, you put a lot of effort and perhaps considerable money into making sure your website is great, that people love it and want to stay and buy your product or use your services. The last thing you want is for people to find your site, [...]

Who Uses the Web and How

How much do people use the Internet? Well, that depends on who they are. It is a subject of much interest to web designers and people who invest in websites. Obviously you want people to read your content and purchase your goods and services. Otherwise you would not go to all the trouble to build [...]

Who are the W3C People

We know that W3C validation is a valuable tool when creating and maintaining effective web pages. But what is the real purpose of the W3C? And who are those people, any way? This interesting subject you may wish to explore on your own, but I will be happy to provide an overview. Actually the W3C [...]

The W3C Validators

We have spoken of the benefits of W3C code validation for SEO and for human usability. The World Wide Web Consortium offers an impressively wide array of tools for validation of website code and content. They really are doing some good work. Here is what they say about their goal and purpose. “The World Wide [...]

Readability

Recently we have discussed findability and usability, in the context of custom web design and with reference to W3C compliance. Now let us take one more step, which may be more fun for you than it is for me. And that is readability. The study of how users read is helpful if you want to [...]