- Accidental Creative
- Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites
- Art of Non-Conformity
- Art of Readable Code
- Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Web Sites
- Beginning PHP6, Apache, MySQL Web Development
- Books to Read
- Born For This
- Complete E-Commerce Book
- Content Inc
- Core PHP Programming
- CSS3: Pushing the Limits
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Defensive Design for the Web
- Deliver First Class Web sites
- Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty
- Designing Web Interfaces
- Designing Web sites that Work: Usability for the Web
- Designing with Progressive Enhancement
- Developing Large Web Applications
- Eat That Frog
- Economics of Software Quality
- Elements of User Experience
- Epic Content Marketing
- Extending Bootstrap
- Flexible Web Design
- Flexible Web Layouts
- Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- jQuery Pocket Reference
- Letting Go of the Words
- Making Every Meeting Matter
- Manage Your Day to Day
- Monster Loyalty
- Official Ubuntu Book
- Organized Home
- PHP In a NutShell
- PHP Refactoring
- PHP5 CMS Framework Development
- PHP6 and MySQL Bible
- Privacy Policy
- Responsive Web Design
- Responsive Web Design with HTML and CSS3
- Rules of Thumb
- Saleable Software
- Securing PHP Web Applications
- Simple and Usable Web, Mobile and Interaction Design
- Smart Organizing
- Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web sites
- The Life-changing Magic of Tidying up
- UI and UX and Design
- Web site Usability
- Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide
- Web Word Wizardy
- Work for Money, Design for Love
- Blogs
- Checklists I Have Collected or Created
- Color in Web Design
- Crafts To Do
- Database and Data Relations Checklist
- Ecommerce Website Checklist
- My Front End UI Checklist
- New Client Needs Analysis
- Newsletters I Read
- Puzzles
- Style Guides
- User Review Questions
- Web Designer's SEO Checklist
- Web site Review
- Website Code Checklist
- Website Final Approval Form
- Writing Content For Your Website
- Writing Styleguide
- Writing Tips
- Complete Book of Potatoes
- Creating Custom Soil Mixes for Healthy, Happy Plants
- Edible Forest Garden
- Garden Design
- Gardening Tips and Tricks
- Gardens and History
- Herbs
- Houseplants
- Light Candle Levels
- My Garden
- My Garden To Plant
- Organic Fertilizers
- Organic Gardening in Alberta
- Plant Nurseries
- Plant Suggestions
- Planting Tips and Ideas
- Root Cellaring
- Way We Garden Now
- Beautiful No-Mow Lawns
- Beginner's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables
- Best of Lois Hole
- Eradicate Invasive Plants
- Gardening Books to Read
- Gardens West
- Grow Organic
- Guerilla Gardening
- Indoor Gardening: The Organic Way
- Real Gardens Grow Natives
- Seed Underground
- Thrifty Gardening from the Ground Up
- Veggie Garden Remix
- Weeds
- What Grows Here
- Activities for Kids
- Baking & Cooking Tips
- Bertrand Russell
- Can I Get that on Sale?
- Cleaning Tips and Tricks
- Colour Palettes I Like
- Compound Time
- Crafts
- Crafts for Kids
- Household Tips
- Inspiration
- Interesting
- Interior Design
- Latin Phrases
- Laundry Tips
- Learn Something New
- Links, Information, and Cool Videos - Stuff for My Kids
- My Miscellany
- Organizing
- Quotes
- Reading List
- Renovations
- Silly Sites
- Things that Make Me Laugh
- Videos to Watch
- YouTube Hacks
- Accessibility
- CSS Frameworks
- CSS Reading List
- CSS Sticky Footer
- htaccess files
- HTML Tips and Tricks
- Javascript (and jQuery)
- Landing Page Tips
- Making Better Websites
- More Information on CSS
- MySQL and Databases
- Navigation
- Responsive Design
- Robots.txt File
- Security and Secure Websites
- Web Design and Development
- Web Design Tools
- Web Error Codes
- Website Testing Checklist
- Writing for the Web
- Writing Ideas for your website
- Animations and Interactions
- Being a Better Designer
- Bootstrap Resources
- Colour
- CSS Preprocessors: Sass and Less
- CSS Tips Tricks
- Designing User Interfaces
- Font & Typographical Inspiration
- Fonts, Typography, Letters & Symbols
- Icons
- Logo Designs
- Photoshop Tips and Tricks
- Sketch
- UX and UI and Design Reading List
- Web Forms
- Determine how users will interact with your web site.
- Will they be want to purchase products? Will they be seeking information?
- Will they try to register for a newsletter? Work out how your visitors will use your web site, then document their interactions and all of the steps involved in each task that they’ll undertake.
- Document the steps involved for each user activity.
Use this information to map out the information your web site needs to offer.
Use an exact organization scheme when visitors need to find specific information - alphabetical, chronological, or geographical. They are easy to use and maintain.
Use ambiguous organization schemes, such as organization by topic, task, or audience, to group related items in meaningful ways. Amazon.com, for example, organizes products by category to help users—across the top of each page of the site appear navigation tabs that read Books, Apparel & Accessories, Electronics, Toys & Games and so on.
Shopping Carts and Checkouts
- Provide multiple entry points to the shopping cart so that users can see what’s in their cart, add items, and complete their orders whenever they choose to, and without hassle. Shopping cart links shows the shopping cart icon and label, reading View Cart, in the web site’s global navigation. You can also see the top-of-the-page global navigation and the Cart, Checkout bottom-of-the-page global navigation.
- For each product on a web page, display a clear, at-a-glance view of the item’s name, price, current availability, an item description, shipping options, and Add to Cart or Add to Wish List links.
- An item's at-a-glance view shows how this information may be shown on the product page in an ecommerce page’s architecture.
- Clearly show ordering options, and link to details.
- Clearly show within the contextual navigation any related items that are available.
- Clearly display user’s progress within the ordering process. For example, you might show the progression of steps required to complete the order process
- Keep order forms simple.
- Emphasize to users that all transactions are secure.
- Clearly display special handling options for gift items.
- Include pricing for a variety of currencies, or provide information on currency exchange rate policies. If you are unable to handle international orders, be sure to make this clear up-front. It can be a very frustrating experience for a customer to begin to place an order only to find that they cannot complete it because the delivery address is not acceptable.
- Clearly show options that allow customers to modify the quantity of each item being purchased.
Avi Rappoport’s article, Generating Simple URLs for Search Engines http://www.searchtools.com/robots/goodurls.html.
Make the shopping cart easy to find from anywhere on your web site.
These are notes I made after reading this book. See more book notes
Just to let you know, this page was last updated Thursday, Dec 05 19