Posts Tagged ‘ usability ’

Jul 15th

Enhanced Joomla Search that Works

Posted in: Joomla | View Comments Posted: Jul, 15, 2010

The default Joomla searching system isn’t that great and if you’re using it to help your users navigate around your website and find content then you may want to look at some different options.

Recently here we’ve been using “JXFinder” which is leagues above the default Joomla search system.

It gives accurate results, enhanced search suggestions and alternative search phrases, keyword highlighting and performs even better than the default search solution within Joomla.

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Nov 8th

Basic Website Usability Tips

Posted in: Joomla | View Comments Posted: Nov, 8, 2009

Here is a short video that give a great introduction to web usability. Take a few minutes out and watch this short presentation from CanadaHelps.org.

It’s a great starting guide in identifying factors on how to make your web site more easy to use and create a better user experience for your web visitors. It also starts you off on creating a basic usability test for your web site. Continue reading “Basic Website Usability Tips” »

Sep 15th

Usability & Accessibility, Lisa Herrod

Posted in: Design | View Comments Posted: Sep, 15, 2009

In doing some research on user experience today, I stumbled across this interesting presentation video of Lisa Herrod at Ideas 4 2008 on usability.

Lisa Herrod, of scenarioseven.com.au, gives her talk “Usability is More Than Skin Deep.” The slides for this presentation are available at http://www.slideshare.net/LisaHerrod/usability-more-than-skin-deep

Lisa was speaking at Ideas 4, run by the Australian Web Industry Association on January 30, 2008. Continue reading “Usability & Accessibility, Lisa Herrod” »