Website usability, step by step

[htmlbasictutor]

Although designing usable systems requires far more than simply applying guidelines, guidelines can still make a significant contribution to usability by promoting consistency and good practice. We use this list of guidelines in our consultancy work. For best results, remember to interpret the guideline in context — this requires a bit more thought but ensures you will get a lot more from your review. — David Travis, July 6, 2009

247 web usability guidelines

[itpetex]

Thanks for informations sources for this.
But maybe anyone can provide quality services/companies to do and test your website/project?

[htmlbasictutor]

A user’s perception of a Web site can evoke a wide range of emotions and attitudes. These emotions and perceptions impact the user’s attitude towards the Web site’s content, advertised products, company, credibility and site usability....

Continued: The Impact of Aesthetics on Attitudes Towards Websites

[websprite]

Its something I've being involved in a lot in making accessibile complient a top 150,000 Alexa website, at the end of the day, a lot is just logic but also there is too many grey areas and if you followed everything to the letter you would end up with a very poor looking website.

What can you do when even sites that are susposed experts on accessibility and provide a paid service get it wrong?

[htmlbasictutor]

This list is written by someone else but I thought it might be useful to someone reading this thread.

Recommended Books for your User Experience and Usability Library

By the way, this author also gives another vote for:
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug.

[jamesparker]

I think you can get help from Google in this regard about the web usability!

[jamesparker]

Originally Posted by htmlbasictutor

247 web usability guidelines

Really informative link about the Web usability guidelines!