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ERIC Number: EJ702344
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Apr-1
Pages: 1
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0362-8930
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How Does Your Site Measure Up? If Traffic Is Sparse, It's Time for a Serious Usability Study
Minkel, Walter
School Library Journal, v50 n4 p33 Apr 2004
Librarians seldom give enough thought to the needs of potential Web-site visitors. Few librarians, for example, stop to consider how they can make their sites easy to use or more attractive. As a result, many sites have awful color schemes, hard-to-find navigation buttons, inappropriate font sizes, and confusing layouts. No wonder they don't attract much traffic. Lisa Hill did, a Web services librarian at the King County (WA) Library System, ran a website usability study on her library's site. She hired a research firm and, in several sessions, invited 24 site users--both adults and teens--to participate in a usability study. She discovered that it's best to use language that is easily understood by the average person rather than use library jargon. The study is described in this article.
School Library Journal, 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010. Web site: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Media Staff
Language: English
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