Website design and usability

When creating a website either using basic HTML and CSS or a more complex framework, there are a number of usability and accessibility considerations to think about. Design which takes usability into consideration tends to perform better and rank higher with search engines.

Basics

Appearance

Performance Issues

Technical issues

Related

Book: The Design of Everyday Things - by Donald A. Norman.
Book: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug.
useit.com - Archive of the 90's usability website.
Dotcom-tools - Web page speed test/waterfall chart.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 - W3C.
WebsiteAdvantage - View HTTP Request and Response Headers.
Five Second Test

“Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network” ~ Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996


 
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