What Makes A Website Score High For Usability?  Here's our top 10 list...

1. Placing form labels above the field get's your form filled out.

2. If you want someone to read your text, put a face to it.  Web users tend to focus on faces and eyes, so if you can add an image of a person looking in the direction of your most important text, by all means do it.

3. Credibility is in the eye of the beholder.  If you want prospective customers to believe in your business, you should make sure that the quality of your website design is at least up to par with your competitors.

4. Key content should always be above the fold because 77% of your visitors won't scroll.

5. Blue links are links that get clicked.  Recent studies have shown that blue links get clicked on more than any other colors.

6. Your search box should be as close to 27 characters wide as possible.

7. White space is your friend.  Studies have shown that smart usage of white space on a web page drastically improves user comprehension.

8. Quality user testing is better than quantity user testing.  Remember, five users will reveal more than 80% of the problems with your website.

9. If you sell products, you have to give users maximum details about your products.

10.  Advertising should not look like advertising if you want it to get noticed. 

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