This term was explained by many and by none of them in full. I guess that if you want the correct explanation, you should check a dictionary. What is the meaning of usability, in terms of Web design?
This means that a site, once it was built, has to provide the user all that he or she wants in order not to leave the site, if possible. This is why many sites have a forum section, because they want to ensure their visitors the most pleasant online environment ever.
Another tip which can be provided here refers to the links. The links has to be visible, as I said in my previous article and if you don’t know how to play with the colors or you don’t want to, you can leave the default options, which show a link colored in blue and with the words underlined. It is wise to leave the text underlined, when it is about a link. The other words in the article must not be underlined as well, because you will create confusion in the lines of your readers.
The same thinking process is applied to the color of the links. If you maintain the blue color for the links, then you should not color the rest of the words that you have in the article. Even though those words will not be underlined and perhaps not even colored in other color, you should not do this.
Still, if your site is about colors, about paitings, and you want to show the children what is the green color or the blue one, you can color some words, but not all of them. This is not a site which offers bed-time stories for children. Only those books can have their words and even letters colored in different colors. Can you imagine to enter a site and see the next phrase colored in different colors: “Every letter of this expression is colored in other color than the rest of the letters”.
For the benefit of your eyes, I did not color the above phrase. When a user clicks on a link and then goes back, you should color the link which was already clicked on, with another color than the color used before, when the link had not been clicked yet. This is happening very much when you enter jobs sites. You enter a certain position and then when you go back, you see that the position was already checked by you. This should happen regardless the link. So, no matter you are linking to an external site or to an internal page of your own Website, the color should be changed. Try to maintain the same color for the links that you have visited, not color in green the first vacancy you saw, in red the second vacancy and so on. On a site which has 100 internal links, the developed will have to work a lot to color every single link in a different color. Don’t stress the developer too much.
