Comments on: What Jakob Nielsen Can Teach You About Making Money From a Poker Website

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:36:09 +0000

What a great article, I’ve been back and re-read a lot o things (including some things in the comments) at least three times now.

By: Website Usability - Simplify Affiliate Websites | Successful Affiliate

Website Usability - Simplify Affiliate Websites | Successful Affiliate — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:39:36 +0000

[...] you are a poker affiliate I suggest you take a look at Randy Ray’s poker website usability [...]

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:36:18 +0000

Nice article Randy. I enjoy your blog a lot.
As poster above said, you should make the logo
link to startpage, Nielsen talks about that in his
usability book as well.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:29:30 +0000

One thing about usability is determing web standards and then not reinventing the wheel. Seeing the way that people browse, or common occurrences throughout websites, and repeating that through your own website to make for simple navigation. Programs like clicktale really help you see stuff like that. I mean you can add in a lot of different things to a website – but you should also allow for the simple navigation that people are used to.

Poker SEO is a solid example of that. Navigational sidebar on left, content on right. Standard 101, and when people come here they don’t even have to think about how to browse. HOWEVER One common occurrence on websites is to have the header image/logo clickable, to take the user back to the homepage. You don’t have that here – I’d make the “Poker SEO” logo in the top left corner clickable to assist in navigation.

By: Randy Ray

Randy Ray — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:12:00 +0000

Depends on the kind of website you’re running, I think. If you’ve written a series of articles that should be read in order, a related posts option might just be a distraction.

On the other hand, there are probably a lot of major aspects of usability that weren’t mentioned in my post above. Feel free to post any you can think of here in the comments.

By: Doovde

Doovde — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:08:39 +0000

I am suprised that giving your users some kind of related posts option isn’t included. I would have thought that a major aspect of usability.

By: Randy Ray

Randy Ray — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:38:41 +0000

I’m really impressed with the new website, and I like the page summary on each page.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:03:36 +0000

I think the tip that I like the most here is the page summary at the top of each page. This is something that I have never seen dome before, but it brilliant. I think if every page online did this quick summary, it would make readers’ experiences so much better.

I have altered my Wordpress theme to pull the meta description from each page and automatically insert it into a formatted area at the top of each page. By doing this, it forces me to write quality, non-spammy meta descriptions also, which I think is very valuable.

An example can be seen here: http://www.pokerwebsites.net/poker/websites/free/ (warning: site is a work in progress)

I think I am going to incorporate this into many of my sites from now on. What do you think?

By: Hazo

Hazo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:37:35 +0000

Here is some further reading on usability:

http://www.nngroup.com/reports/

By: Randy Ray

Randy Ray — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:46:02 +0000

Heh. Nice idea!