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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Chapter 3

- Your website needs to run fast. The most common reason why you lose viewers is because getting to where they want to be takes too long. Quick downloading pages decrease the waiting time, which in return provides timely feedback and happy customers.
-By "staying within the established framework of the web", your audience can recognize the layout and efficiently find what it is they're looking for. Consistency is important.
- Try not to get rid of the navigational bar. If you do, your audience can become disoriented and confused. They like to be able to use the back button and then go in a different direction than they did before. By taking the bar away, you take away their desire to browse your site.
-External links are likes that provide paths outside your site that are relevant to the audience's goal.
Internal links are the most common. These are links within your site like navigational links.
Download links are links that lead to a file or document that can be displayed in a browser. They can help provide further content.
Inline links are ones that guide the viewer within the content of the current page.
Action links are ones that trigger events like submit or search.
-The site should be accessible to everyone no matter their technology background, age, or location. Your site should reach the general audience. Make sure that your site can be viewed on many different browsers including the fact that they may be an older version.

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