Articles - Website Usability

Advice on how to sell software online and offlline

6 Usability Mistakes Bugging Me in 2008
August 13, 2008 (3 comments)

An article with concrete examples of usability mistakes that happen on regular basis on websites in general and in software related websites in particular. Confusing site structure, lack of search function, invisible links, non-optimized 404 pages, errors in usability forms and splash pages are only some aspects exemplified here Continue to article

The 66 Route to Selling Software Online - Part 2
July 28, 2008
The Buy Now section within your website is the trigger section for starting these long lasting relationships with your customers. It's true that not all of them will work, but all of them should be treated with the same importance and energy, in order to make it happen. Continue to article

The 66 Route to Selling Software Online - Part 1
June 25, 2008
Describing the "66 Route" to selling software online has the main goal of emphasizing on the main usability mistakes that software vendors and their website designers do when it comes to the core of their business: selling software. Continue to article

13 Tips to Make Good Use of Testimonials
April 09, 2008 (2 comments)

An article about the lending credibility of testimonials and how websites can make the most of them. A testimonial turns a certain customer into a witness of its good or poor qualities. Word of mouth marketing turns out to be really effective. Continue to article

Usability Friends: AJAX
October 29, 2007
Among the techniques that will allow Web 2.0 to make the users' experience far more pleasant than it is today, we can mention Ajax. The changes and benefits that Ajax brings cannot only alter the way usability is perceived, but it can also help developers deliver desktop quality applications via the Web. Continue to article

13 Tips to Design Your Links
August 15, 2007
Be different from competitors. Make links on your site easy to notice and predictable. Here are some tips about how to make links more usable in order for users to enjoy a reasonable navigational process on your site Continue to article

50 Online Accessibility and Usability Tools
June 15, 2007
Usability and accessibility go hand in hand with conversion rates, customer satisfaction, targeted traffic and the list can go on. A list providing 50 useful online tools to check your web site usability and accessibility. Continue to article

How to Improve Website Credibility
June 04, 2007 (1 comment)

Credibility is essential in order to make people: register, click on your ads, download software, resort to your services and so on. Therefore, website credibility can be identified to some extent with the idea of a successful business. Continue to article

Checklist for Usability Forms
May 03, 2007
The primary goal of form usability is making sure that the intended users are able to interact properly with the Web site while having a positive and convenient experience. We provide a checklist with 12 basic requirements to be met in order to achieve user friendliness forms. Continue to article

How to Make your URLs SEO Friendly
April 27, 2007
URL rewriting can bring you on the right track in the race for Search Engine Optimization (combined with other techniques that you may use for this purpose). The other strong reason for URL rewriting would be the increase in usability for web users, and in maintainability for webmasters. Continue to article

How Can You Gain Site Accessibility?
April 02, 2007
While usability stands for the interface ease of use and for the content's readability, the accessibility refers more to the ability of a site to be used by as many people as possible. Continue to article

Choosing the Right Colors for Your Web Site
March 21, 2007 (4 comments)

How to choose the right colors for your website in order to keep visitors browsing the pages? Tips to keep in mind when defining the color scheme. Continue to article

How to Build the Semantic Web with Dublin Core
January 17, 2007
How do we use dublin core metadata and why? Read more about new metada elements and their importance in internet metadata resource. Continue to article

Does your Website Need W3C Validation?
December 13, 2006
How to help search engines and browsers "read" your website better? Although it’s not yet proved without doubt that W3C validation gives you better search engine rankings, it’s sure that errors in your code can cause you big problems. Continue to article

Writing for the Web
November 23, 2006
The rule of thumb when writing for the Web is to keep the information well structured, and to respect some basic, very simple directions. Failure to do so will result in web users never attempting to access your web page again. Continue to article

Credibility wins clients over
September 21, 2006
Tips on how to improve your website credibility and thus sell more software. What you could do to impress the visitors and make them buy software from your website, and not from your competitors? Continue to article

Using Search to win customers
August 22, 2006
How to use the Search Site Feature as a sales tool? Try to improve your search usability feature by using a consumer-oriented strategy. Keep track of the pages where your users resort to search most often. Continue to article

Selling software online
June 27, 2006
Selling software online: How do you present your software? See our to-do list when planning to sell software online and be successful at it. Continue to article

Sell more software from your website
June 27, 2006
You want to sell more software from your website? How do you make the client truly understand your product and trust it – and your company – enough to pay the price? Tips on what you should do. Continue to article

Need to know more? View all topics:

Free newsletter
Sign up now for the Avangate Digest newsletter to keep in touch with the latest trends in the software industry, to find out what the top software people say and recommend, and to get access to resources about shareware industry tools and techniques.

Enter email :

We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to any third parties. Any information you provide is protected by our Privacy Policy.
View sample newsletter