Articles
Here are some articles that provide background for some of the guidelines
and approaches that we use in building and maintaining web sites.
- 10 Things I Hate
- Most of these could apply to non web based business but seem to be
especially rampant in the context of the web.
- Gartner Group Web Site Cost
Stats
- A summary graphic from a Gartner Group study of the costs for developing
an e-commerce web site.
- Web Site Design Tips
- A concise article on how easy it is for web site designers to forget
the web site's reason for existence and make it into a display case
for what they do.
- Multimedia
Is Dangerous
- Another vote for keeping things simple and focused on solving a problem.
- How Users View Pages
- This is a collection of related studies on how people view web pages.
Invaluable information for page designers.
Eyetracking Study of Web Readers
How Users Read on the Web
- Search
Engine Submission Guide
- Here is the bible on getting your site listed by the major search
engines. We especially recommend reading the section on Search
Engine Design Tips. This gives the reasons behind a lot of our design
recommendations, particularly for the home page design.
- Pages Counters - Why We Won't
Do Them
- Here is a great little site that explains (with a dose of humor) why
page counters are not a good idea.
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