{"id":1424,"date":"2010-02-18T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2010-02-18T21:02:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T02:02:03","slug":"web-usability-tip-less-graphics-in-a-web-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2010\/web-usability-tip-less-graphics-in-a-web-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Usability Tip: less graphics in a web page please!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/002.png\" alt=\"web usability\" title=\"web usability\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1428\" style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>In the following video on Web usability, I talk about how fancy images can actually hurt your web pages in terms of ease of use. Watch the video for details:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pd-ANWBTl9w&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pd-ANWBTl9w&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Web Usability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Making a website more user friendly is a tricky thing, because often times what looks good (in terms of design) actually gets in the way of the user &#8211; beautiful graphic often times makes the page more confusing. So, the tricky part is to make it look good while keeping it simple.  <\/p>\n<p>My Web usability tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pictures should NOT be links to click on.<\/li>\n<li>Use text links that stand out.<\/li>\n<li>Use icons and images that provide information about the links around it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is much more to be said about this.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<br \/>\nwww.killersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/002.png\" alt=\"web usability\" title=\"web usability\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1428\" style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the following video on Web usability, I talk about how fancy images can actually hurt your web pages in terms of ease of use. Watch the video for details.<\/p>\n<p>More about Web usability:<\/p>\n<p>Making a website more user friendly is a tricky thing, because often times what looks good (in terms of design) actually gets in the way of the user &#8211; beautiful graphic often times makes the page more confusing. So, the tricky part is to make it look good while keeping it simple.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}