We’ve seen millions of fonts available to use, but we can only pick a few web browser safe fonts for our web design (at least until all browsers fully support CSS3). Yeah, web safe fonts are boring but the most important thing is they appear fine in user’s end.

We always stand in the shoes of website designer/developer, so when we visit our own website and ask ourselves “why am I here?” we always have thousands of reasons.
But, how about your visitors? They wouldn’t be there just to check for bugs, or finding out what to do to make the design looks cleaner. So give them some reasons to stay.

Obviously, user will get into one website at the first place because they find useful information inside it. Power of content plays an important role in this game. When we …

Yes we always have to provide a way for user to get back to home page. Every sub pages should be just one click away from going back home. But, don’t make them must go to home before they could go somewhere else. So always provide menu on top or left side of sub pages in your every web design.
Don’t put navigation links only at the bottom of the page. Navigation link is what user always looking for. Putting them at the bottom make people must scroll down before reaching …

Fast page load time is a part of good web usability. People always love high speed websites. Not only that, Google also have announced that they will also put Page Load Time in their page ranking system. This could do very much for SEO. Let’s get your site run faster.

Graphic image is inseparable with web design, but image usage must be minimized effectively to get a fast load time. The fewer the image, the faster load time you get. But if you still have to use plenty of images, make …

Every time you turn some text into hyperlink, always give them a link title. Link title is just like image title or any other file title. It should be clear information about where the link will direct user.
First, this link titles not only function as web usability enhancer. It would tell user where they’re about to go if they click the hyperlink. Page title should appear on mouse over. Just like this one. See, that page title will explain about the hyperlink without having it clicked.

Not only useful for user, …

It’s a good thing to give user several ways to get to same point. Especially links to pages that you want people to visit, or pages that people are likely to look for. For example, you have one link to your “Our Product” page at the head navigation bar, and you have another link in the footer, and one other as a banner at the side of the page.
Same thing goes to search box. You can put your search box at the top corner of the page and put another …

Nobody likes pop up ads. Everybody sees it as junk that appears without being requested. We always know that when we browse a website as a user.

We often forget that when we stand as the one designing a web. Some advertiser may pay good price to put pop up ad in our site. Or maybe worse, we give our brand/company site a pop up ad of our specific product or related brand.
Pop Up ad annoys visitor. Giving user pop up ad is like serving them something they hate, making them …

We have talk about web usability before. Yes we always remember that good web design isn’t always about sophisticated flash or artistic layout. Good web design is the one that give user a good experience. Friendly user interface is a must.

Structure is important. Web design must organize the user interface usefully. Put together all the things that related and separate those that are not related. Ease user to browse what they are looking for. Even better, provide shortcut to skip long procedure.
Visibility is also matter. Don’t hide important element such …

When we’re talking about user experience, the top priority is comfort. Comfortable interface is very important to make people enjoy surfing inside our website. Easy registration, easy login, easy navigation, and other easy things let people walks around comfortably.
Your home page is the key. Reveal clearly what your site’s doing at the home page. Let people know why they should go deeper to all your interesting sub pages. But keep it short and simple. Combine attractive image with creative tagline. Facebook’s home page (not logged in) is one good example.

Still …

When people visiting our website, it is very important to make them comfortable surfing inside it. Good Navigation is the key. We’re not only talking about navigation bar. We’re talking about the whole web design. Good navigation can be the result of good web design plus quality web programming.
How important does this good navigation anyway? Let’s just put it this way. If people come to your site for the first time, and they can’t find a way to what they are looking for, that’s a bad experience for them, and …