Index_P

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page background. See backgrounds

page titles

in browser title bars, 109

lacking, 107

not prominent enough, 107, 109

placing prominently near the top, 110

pages. See Web pages

pale colors. See also color

difficulty in distinguishing between, 265

patterned backgrounds

avoiding the use of, 256

with poor contrast, 256

text on, 255

patterns, providing for data fields, 128

"payees", creating and managing a list of, 73-77

Pentagram.com, indicating the current page on the navigation bar only, 110

perceptual bleeding from the background into the text, 256-257

permanent content, no such thing as, 34

persistent cookies, 53

Piles of Irrelevant Hits blooper, 178-182

Pitsco-LEGO Dacta website

catalog order form omitting the District of Columbia, 66

District of Columbia included on their PLD store site, 66, 68

hidden "click here " link, 237

product catalog descriptions with no selection information, 25

Pitsco-LEGO Dacta's online store, inconsistent label alignment, 143

pixels (px) as the font size unit in style sheets, 254

placeholder page, 42

PLDstore.com. See Pitsco-LEGO Dacta's online store

Pointless Choice blooper, 57-62

no significant difference, 57

points, 254

poor contrast with patterned background, 256

poor labeling of forms, 151-152

poor layout of forms, 152-153

poor usability, effects of, 4

poorly indexed data, 178

pre-release testing of this book, 303

precision, 178

preferences, forgetting the user 's stated, 46-47

presumptions, involving user choices, 129

previous page, losing data on return to, 47, 48

PriceWaterhouseCoopers' website, 14, 15

privacy policy, ambiguous or conflicting, 28-29

processing transactions, Web not designed for, 53

product categories, naming consistently, 215-216

product pages, generating automatically from product databases, 132

prominent page titles on RealEstate.com pages, 110

prose text. See also text

avoid centering, 260

avoiding long passages of, 196, 198

minimizing in websites , 238

proximity, associating objects based on, 142

ProxyVote.com

registration process requiring the same 12-digit control number, 46

requesting users to select secure protocols, 58

pseudo-Latin text for mocking up websites, 39

PWC.com, 14, 16

PWCGlobal.com. See PriceWaterhouseCoopers' website

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