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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Web Usability


Most visitors use a search engine to find site which what they want to find. A clearly site and content easy to read is more attracting visitor to use your site.
Hotel web page provides more information to guests, Homepage of hotel can shows what service hotel provided and facilities hotel have. E.g. I think Crowne Plaza Hotel Dundalk have a good homepage. Homepage is face to world and starting point for most user visits.
In the homepage, the designer use red color as main background color, and image is attract me, and the content is easy to find, there are home page, hotel location page, wedding  and event page , conference venue page, special offer page, content are purposeful and have a beginning, middle and end, Each page expose the full detail about the hotel. The content is readable and understandable.
If your want to research Crowne Plaza Hotel Dundalk in the search engine, it must have window title with good visibility is search engine.   If you type Dundalk Hotel, conference Dundalk, Crowne Plaza and Dundalk, all the title you can find this Hotel.
In the web page, hotel link a lot of name with the most important keyword, Key word is easy to find what you want to find, when they start each link with a relevant word it is easy for scanning for eye to differentiate it from other links on page.
Home page Include a site search box helps visitors quickly locate the information they want. Make the search box prominent and be sure that it searches your entire site.
Support your brand, a good brand creates or reinforces a user's impression of the site. When your site is strongly branded, that means that visitors will think of you first when they go shopping for your product or service.
Good home page is not a first impression of organization, sometime they can add more value of your organization.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Web Standards

What is a Web standard?

Web Standard provide guidance to people have access to the information online, and make web development fast and more enjoyable. Some standard Company make standard easy to some special people. Blind people may have computer can read web page to them, for the poor eyesight may have pages rearranged or magnified for easy to read.

When people develop web standard, it is should development is simplified. Using Web standards will help people ensure that all brewers will display Web site properly. Web Page that follows to the standard is easier for search engines to access and index, easier to change to other format.

W3C?
Tim Berners-Lee’ invented World Wide Web; The World Wide Web is a common space users can information to work together, it is founded in 1994, the W3C have more than 450 member organization.

The most important W3C standards are:
·        XHTML
·        CSS
·        XML
·        XSL 
·       DOM

Accessibility
Web standards can give web page greater visibility in the web searches. It is make both server and client to understand the structure of document. Compliant documents can easily be converted to other format; this is allowed for more versatile use of the information within documents on the World Wide Web.
HTML is important in web standards; disable people can use the web, Blind people can use computers that read Web pages for them. People with poor sight can rearrange and magnify standard Web pages. Simple Web standards like HTML 4 and CSS will make your Web pages much easier to understand by special devices.

Web standards helps make the content accessible to a wider range of users, including those with disabilities, poor vision, older users, and those without the software or hardware to fully view all your website content. With the markup code being cleaner (XHTML, XML, etc), specialized devices for visually impaired users can read out the content. This also allows users to customize pages to their needs using style switches and provides a printer-friendly version of Web pages.