Web Usability Index

These points and practices are simply pulled out of my own opinion. An opinion built and justified with years of web development, critique and support.

General Practices

• Less is often more
• Bolding text should not be a solution to grab users attention but rather to provide emphasis on specific information within a paragraph/list. Bolding an entire paragraph may not accomplish your goal to draw attention to a particular element on the page but rather a visual would do.

Other Resources

• Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps
• AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons
• Accessibility and usability
• Separating behaviour and structure
• Forms, usability, and the W3C DOM
• http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Design/Basics/form1.html
• http://www.evolt.org/article/Usable_Forms_for_an_international_audience/4090/15118/
• http://www.formsthatwork.com/
• http://www.nngroup.com/reports/ecommerce/checkout.html
• http://www.sitepoint.com/article/538