{"id":710,"date":"2009-02-18T19:59:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T00:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/710"},"modified":"2009-02-18T19:59:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T00:59:46","slug":"usability-mistakes-in-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/710","title":{"rendered":"Usability Mistakes in Web Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Smashing Magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2009\/02\/18\/9-common-usability-blunders\/\" target=\"_blank\">9 Common Usability Mistakes in Web Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some great tips.<\/p>\n<p>For #1, I definitely appreciate web sites that use actual decent clickable areas for page navigation. These aren\u2019t too bad for example (from <a href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/suggest\/threads\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSDN<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"31\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/image12.png\" width=\"296\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s still too many web sites like this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 \u2026 31 32<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The clickable area for each page is no wider than the width of the character! Don\u2019t forget that not everyone has the mouse dexterity of a 14 year-old avid game player! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Smashing Magazine: 9 Common Usability Mistakes in Web Design. Some great tips. For #1, I definitely appreciate web sites that use actual decent clickable areas for page navigation. These aren\u2019t too bad for example (from MSDN): But there\u2019s still too many web sites like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-bs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":217,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/217","url_meta":{"origin":710,"position":0},"title":"The ASP.NET Single Page Interface and AJAX Patterns","date":"May 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Posted on MSDN, by Dino Esposito, \"Single Page Interface and AJAX Patterns.\" What is it? From the article... 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