Web Development
DART 230

• Usability/home page site of the day from:
  Ryan

Today’s topics are a last look at usability and navigation.
For the record, here are more good sites for discussion of usability:

• A huge list from the U.S. government
• The Usable Web site
• Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think.
• The Navigation page from Web Designer’s Virtual Library (See Navigation 101 by Charlie Morris)
• For those who want to add a search function as Jakob Nielsen would suggest, here is a good review of the free Atomz proxy server search service from Pandia
• Another site for inspiration (notice colors, use of type) thebestdesigns and check their archives (lots of Flash, CSS).
• Eyetracking research from Wichita State
• A rather amazing study of eyetracking on Web pages from the Poynter Institute (journalism-based). Check out the videos (lower right corner).
• Finally, here is the link again to a searchable database of Cool Home Pages at CoolHome Pages.com .

One way to put it together is in a checklist for Site Assessment

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