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Here are my latest reflections on a wide range of subjects...Information Architecture Basics: What is an IA?
Information Architects, or as they are more commonly known - IAs, play a crucial role in the success of any website. User experience has become an important consideration for online businesses, with many realising the benefits of having good IA resource in the team....
Web Usability Basics: How usable is my website?
Having a site which is easy to use is one of the foundations of a successful website. In this article I will talk about how to audit your own website through usability testing to ascertain how usable it really is. Before we do this, it would be a good idea to clarify...
Web Accessibility Basics: User Groups
When working on the web it is crucial to ensure that your website is accessible to as many users as possible, including those with disabilities. To do that you need to understand about each different type of disability and their impact on users interacting with the...
Top is not always the best place to be
A few years ago at the Search Engine Strategies conference (SES) in London an expert panel speaker suggested that top positions in organic search don't always equate to top results for the website. I thought at the time that this was a very strange thing to say. Like...
Information overload: Has the web got too big now?
Something for everyone The world wide web is a diverse, never ending void. There are sites out there for almost every conceivable interest that you may have in life. Ourselves, businesses and governments worldwide are moving more of our personal details online to make...