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.

Content Typography

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.

Content Finding

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. Don’ forget to put search box.

Fast Loading

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 to 25 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.

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Here’s are the trick on how to keep your Firefox from hogging your computer’s memory, and to help load Firefox pages faster…

1- Open Firefox, type about:config in your Firefox browser.

2- Right click anywhere on the page, then from the menu select “New” then “Integer”.

3- When the dialog box appears, enter the following string:-

browser.cache.memory.capacity

4- It will open another dialog box, enter: 16384

p/s: 16384 is the exact number that represents 16MBs of RAM.

5- Lastly, close Firefox and restart.

You should notice a significant increase in speed between now and the next time you reboot your computer.

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Here is how to create a password reset disk in Windows Vista.

1) Plug in your USB stick or floppy drive.

2) Go to Start - Click on your account picture - then in the left sidebar click “Create a password reset disk.”

3) Follow the instructions in the dialog that pops up.

This is useful in case you forget your password (this shouldn’t happen) or you would like to change your password at startup. This only works in Windows Vista.

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