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Increasing Clickable Area on Links
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- Thu 19 Jun 2008 at 17:43
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Awhile back, 37signals posted a blog entry about the clickable area of links. The key is for links to have a padding on them, so that users do not necessarily have to click on the actual text itself, but have the ability to click on the area around it as well. It helps to improve usability and is a small adjustment to make to a website. One should only use it on navigation links really, but it does make a big difference for such a small change. At Lowter, we have a large clickable area for our top navigation links, but this results more o…
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Top Ten Don'ts of Usable Web Design
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- Sun 29 Jan 2006 at 9:33
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What makes a website unusable? Large media files? Complex navigation? Inconsistency? How about all this and more! Find out here as Ethan tells us the top ten don'ts of practical usability.
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Three Tips for Usable Search Forms
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- Fri 7 Oct 2005 at 18:53
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Does your search form lack usability? Ethan Poole, Lowter Editor, guides you through three simple tips towards creating a more usable search form. Eliminate any excess thought your users may have with these three helpful tips.
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Don't Make Me Think!
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- Fri 9 Sep 2005 at 22:31
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- Blog Entry
Don't Make Me Think, by Steve Krug, is THE book on web usability. It is praised by many web developers as the best book available on practical web usability. Recently, Steve Krug has released a second version of the book, which includes three new chapters. I won't be surprised if this book just flies off of the shelves, as the first edition was very popular. I have yet to read the book myself, although it is definitely on my to-do list. I checked out the first edition from my library when it first came out, as it was just new in my libra…
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