Improve Usability of Your Website

No matter how brilliant your website design is, if it is hard to reach the content of your site then your site is as useful as an empty shell. Here are some tips to improve the usability of your website to ensure it serves its functions optimally.

The first method is to make sure the typography of your content is suitable. If you have large blocks of text, make sure to use CSS to space out the lines accordingly. The longer a single line of text is, the greater the line-height of each line should be. Also, make sure the font size of your text is big enough to read easily. Some sites have 10-pixel-tall text in Verdana font; while that may look neat and tidy, you have to really strain your eyes to read the actual text.

Make it easy for visitors to find content that they want on your site. If you have thousands of articles on your site and a certain visitor wants to find one single article from that pile, you have to provide a feasible means to enable visitors to do that without hassle. Be it an SQL-driven database search engine or just a glossary or index of articles that you have, providing such a feature will make sure your visitors can use your site with ease.

Ensure that your site loads fast if you do not want to lose visitors. Most internet users will leave a website if it doesn't load completely within 15 seconds, so make sure the crème de la crème of your website is delivered to the visitors as soon as possible to retain their attention.

Last of all, test each and every link on your site before it goes online. There is nothing more effective in tarnishing your professional image than broken links, so be very careful about that.

Indonesian Slang

Yes, Indonesian Slang is unique..
many Americans learn this language!!

Alay ??

Alay...??

i'm not sure plainly can describe it perfectly and make sure you'll get it until you are indonesian...at least you have to add 500 indonesian teenagers into your facebook account to identify it perfectly...or even just 1 or 2 person if anyone here has 'alay' into their friend list...

Alay's personality it's like this :

- a really stupid way of writing, abnormal sentences, unreadable...like "h3y, wh3r r u g0ink?", "wadz ur nAm3", of course u can still read it because it's english and i only change the vowel into numbers, the real ones is alien, they change words / letters as they like, well, u can browse this forum and see for it yourself, if you are lucky, you'll find someone's post with bahasa that's sooooo hard to read, alien words, u can tell that he/she is alay..

- 2 yards long facebook ID

- english speaking wannabe, say something, update facebook status, tweet, in english but the sentence looks terrible, they are killing it...

....and many more.

i don't know if u have this kind of personality in your country, but believe me, you don't want to meet them anywhere, not even in forums...

What is Keren?

What is Keren?

yeah, it means "cool"

When you see something cool, you can say:

"Woaaah.. keren banget!!!" (man, it's so damn cool!)

definitely. You can use it to talk to ur friends..

'keren' can be used to replace 'handsome' or 'hot' (ganteng or tampan in indonesian)..

Situation: a group of girls see Brad Pitt

Girl A: wow, tu cowok keren banget! (woa, that guy is hot!) *note: TU is a shorter form of ITU or 'that'

Girl B: Iya, keren banget. (yeah, he's so damn hot) *note: banget: very (another form of SANGAT)

The Important Rules in Website Design

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are five important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Don't use a splash pages


Splash pages are the rank pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally acquire a very scenic soul with words equal "wanted" or "utter here to get". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no historical role. Do not let your visitors someone a justification to penetrate on the "wager" secure! Release them the value of your tract up line without the splatter page.

2) Have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.


3) Don't use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.


4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

5) Avoid using audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.