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17. The Secret of Attractive and Useful Websites

Adrian W. West

(1)Colyton, UK

To ensure success a website must be: Carefully planned, attractive and useful. It should also be based on a knowledge of web-user psychology (how users access and view websites).

This chapter contains the following sections:

  • Basic rules for an attractive website

  • That all-important home page

  • User psychology: How surfers use websites

  • Websites should be useful

  • Create a web page with an encoded email address

  • Summary

Basic Rules for an Attractive Website

Good websites will follow the commonsense rules clearly expressed in Steve Krug’s groundbreaking book Don’t Make Me Think ...

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