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  Get Educated: Listen to Your Users (Usability and the Web)
 

 

Have you asked your users what they would suggest to make your site easier to navigate? At the school where I work, the Web site is used by a number of students I see on a daily basis. Their suggestion? Make pages relate to the names of teachers and not to the names of the courses they teach. Thus, the "Teachers' Pages" index was born. Now, users know that it will be easy to find information related to the person they see in the classroom every day.

Get Educated: Usability Resources

I use a number of sites on the Internet to help make my designs more useful and easier for my Web users. Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, is a personal favourite, with opinionated and informed advice. Another, is WebWord.com, which publishes a regular e-mail newsletter and has a useful archive of links to articles of interest as well. Keep abreast of developments at these two sites and then apply your knowledge to your own site. I think you'll be pleased with the results.