Web Development
DART 230

• Usability/home page site of the day from:
  Justin

First, here is a demo of a fixed <header> (with a jQuery slider) that I did for the 430 course.
Topics for today are a last look at usability and navigation.
For the record, here are more good sites for discussion of usability:

• A huge list from the U.S. government
• A homepage checklist
• Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think.
• Twenty usability tips.
• Or this list of 10 tips from Webdesigner Depot
• For those who want to add a search function as Jakob Nielsen would suggest (here's his Usability book—we used his chapter titles), here is the Google page on customized search that can display on your site.
• Another site for inspiration (notice colors, use of type) thebestdesigns and check their archives (lots of Flash, CSS).
• Finally, here is the link again to a searchable database of Cool Home Pages at CoolHome Pages.com .

One way to put it together is in a checklist for Site Assessment

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