80 Ways to Improve Online Ecommerce Usability

An 80-point usability checklist for webmasters of ecommerce websites.

(PRWEB) December 4, 2003 - Finally, a single, comprehensive, usability checklist from website usability consultant, Kimberly Krause of Cre8pc.com, that applies to every site you design. Please Ring Bell for Service -- A Usability Checklist for Ecommerce Websites" avoids weighty tome expounding upon the theories of usability. This is simple. This is direct. This is everything you need to test your ecommerce website to make sure its ready for online selling.

Within Please Ring Bell for Service -- A Usability Checklist for Ecommerce Websites" is every factor you need to consider when building, testing or reviewing your ecommerce website. Are your visitors not buying? The solution to your problem lies within this checklist. Kim not only tells you what might help; she explains why. Print it out, leave it on your desktop and refer to it regularly. This easy checklist is available in one affordable, 11-page PDF download.

Kimberly Krause is the owner of Cre8pc.com and the popular Cre8asiteForums.com. Both sites cover search engine optimization, usability and web design. People often ask me 'Where can I find all the elements I need to have for my website in just one place? I decided to write one and with the holiday season here, it seemed like a great time to focus on online ecommerce."

Kim knows you don't have time to argue over theory, or listen to arcane pronouncements on usability requirements. What do you need to know-- right now-- to make sure that your ecommerce site gives you good results? You need to know what's in this website usability checklist. Included are four simple checklists with 20 checkpoints in each one: Standard Elements, Architecture & Navigation, Content, and Forms & Error Tolerance.

It's the best kind of common sense, the kind you're sure you would've thought of yourself-- but you never would have. Kim Krause has the experience and the knowledge to make this kind of a checklist because she tests websites as a usability consultant. "Please Ring Bell for Service - A Usability Checklist for E-commerce Websites" is based on research conducted by Usability and Human Factors Engineers who collect data during website user testing, as well as Kim's background in Quality Assurance Software Testing and Web Design.

No wasted space, no fluff, no nonsense, no preaching. Just things you need to know.
The answers are in here, because the user is out there.

Additional information is located at http://www.cre8pc.com/ringbell.html.

About Kim Krause
Kim's career began in 1995 as the Webmaster for an Internet magazine publishing company. Later, while working for "dotcoms", she performed search engine optimization and software application usability testing. An advocate for self-starters and small businesses, Kim specializes in what she calls the "marriage between search engine optimization and usability" and to that end offers Cre8pc.com and Cre8asiteForums.com as teaching sites.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Kimberly Krause
Cre8pc.com
http://www.cre8pc.com
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com

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