Yearly archives: 2006

mezzoblue website redesigns

Dave Shea, creator or CSS Zen Garden, has redesigned his personal website, mezzoblue.

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Accessible HTML Form Design Tip: Checkboxes/Radio buttons

Quickly make your check boxes and radio buttons more accessible and usable by adding a label and an id.

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visitmanchester.com – great idea, poor website

I live in Manchester, and I absolutely love it. I think it’s so great that loads of people should come and visit to see the city’s sights. So why does Manchester’s new tourism website visitmanchester.com not impress me in the slightest?

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Ecommerce Conversion Tip: Remove distractions from the checkout process

A tip often mentioned for improving checkout drop-off rates is to remove distractions from the checkout process. Certain figures get bandied about for checkout drop-off rates from 60-90%. Every ecommerce site’s products and therefore, customers are different and so are their checkout processes, so it’s difficult to state what is the average complete rate for

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YouTube is brilliant

I can easily imagine myself becoming addicted to YouTube, quitting my job and spending the rest of my life watching fake amateur video blogs or kids robot dancing. In fact I’ve just spent that last 5 minutes watching a guy who took a picture of himself everyday for the past 6 years then spliced it

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Getting people to click the ‘Zoom Image’ link

This week I embarked on an experiment to try and see if I could improve the number of people clicking on the ‘Zoom Image’ link that features underneath all product images on the product details page on the JJB Sports website. The Zoom link is a very common feature on ecommerce sites therefore, you’d expect

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