About Me
I learned HTML, and later, XHTML and CSS during the late 90s, when the web seemed fresh and new, and nobody really knew what it would become (do we now?).
I don't wish to judge people, I simply want to encourage user-centred design; meaning, each webmaster has to think about their visitors, and not themselves!
You may well know what your site is about, and how to navigate around it quickly, but a new visitor may not, so make sure you:
- Make the purpose of your site obvious; let me understand what it's all about within 2 seconds; don't make me read a lot of text;
- Give me the gift of consistent navigation throughout your site; put the same navigation links on every page, and keep them in the same order and in the same place; seperate the external links from your internal navigation links;
- Stick with one 'look' - don't use multiple Themes, unless the Themes are very similar, and you change the look to help me understand I'm in a new sub-section;
- Place some standard links in your footer; I need to get to the top of the page quickly if I've scrolled down a long way; I need to get to the home page easily, I need to be able to find your email address.
Not Brilliant, but Good Enough
Some of the sites I review may not be as brilliant as apple.com, but this Review site isn't about such matters. I'm not reviewing pages all over the WWW, I'm just encouraging Google Pages people to create their hobby sites that are enjoyable for other people to surf through.
