I read this article this morning, Strategic Design: 6 Steps For Building Successful Websites.

The approach is very similar to the principles which we built our web service offering on 7 years ago, and is the simple pragmatic results of some of the sound usability research that’s been done in academia.

If you are thinking about commissioning a website for your charity or business at the moment then it’s worth a read before you get going, it may just give you a different way of thinking about what makes a website ‘good’.

Web accessibility is a buzz word many developers bandy around without much in the way of explanation. It seems obvious that accessibility is important - after all, the more people who can access your website the better - but what other advantages does accessibility offer, and is it really as important as we techies seem to make out?

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