Website Usability & Validation
What Is Website Usability? Website usability refers to methods applied to a website's design to make the site easy for the end-user to navigate without requiring them to have any particular training. The user should be able to intuitively understand the navigation, layout and the related actions to be performed on the site in order to interact with the site.
What Are Some Examples Of Usability Issues? There is a multitude of considerations for creating a site with a high degree of usability. Navigation usability items are having consistent page-to-page navigation, using normal navigation design such as top placed horizontal nav bars and using title attributes. Legibility usability items are a high contrast between text and background colors, using non-serif fonts, allowing adequate spacing to avoid clutter. Functional usability items are cross browser compatibility and striving to meet W3C site validation standards.
What Is W3C Site Validation? The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium, which basically governs all things internet. The W3C establishes industry best practices for coding, design and related internet creations. A website design and development company that meets W3C vaildation standards has gone the extra mile to create a site that should render flawlessly in popular web browsers and achieve higher quality scores on search engines like Google. Only a very small percentage of websites truly meet W3C validation standards. We are proud to state that TigerSEO Marketing is highly proficient at meeting these rigorous standards. We encourage you to click on the W3C Validation button on this page to confirm our skills.
Does Validation Affect SEO? We believe that it does. The people that you find in online forums that belive otherwise are misinformed. If they cite having SEO success without validating their websites then the whole truth is almost certainly that the sites that they beat were did a worse job of meeting W3C standards. In our opinion a well built website should meet W3C validation standards to get an advantage over an otherwise equal competitor site.
Usability Is For Mobile Devices Too!
Website usability standards apply to mobile devices like the iPhone™, Android™ and the iPad™. If your website does not render well on these devices you are probably losing business. We can help. Contact us today.
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