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WalMart.com

avoiding calling users "users", 208, 209

items missing from categories, 21, 23

tabs not connected to the panel, 275

Washington, D.C., failing to include on state lists, 66

watermark title in page background, 109

weak search methods , 178

Weather.com, no recognition of New York City, 71

Weather.Yahoo.com. See Yahoo Weather

Web

designed for sharing information, 53

meteoric rise in popularity of, 6-8

origins of, 5-6

quality of, 1

searching the entire, 169

"stateless" nature of, 51

usability of, 1, 3-4

Web applications, releasing without testing on users, 283

Web Blooper checklist on this book's website, 9

Web-Bloopers.com, website for this book, 9

Web browsers. See browsers

Web content. See content

Web design bloopers. See bloopers

Web developers. See developers

Web forms. See forms

Web pages

with active links to themselves , 112

designing with a consistent appearance within a site, 88

generating automatically from product databases, 132

lacking any navigation links, 116-119

losing data on return to the previous, 47, 48

omitting unfinished , 42

performing task analysis and conceptual design before Web page design, 78-79

refreshing, 116

Web presence

not rushing into, 42

organizational commitment requirement for, 34-35

Web search, history of, 159-160

Web team

placing at the corporate or agency level, 87-88

responsibility for the entire external site, 88

WebAdTech.com, results for search that found nothing, 2

website lexicon. See site lexicon

websites . See also under specific website names

about browser sniffing, 63

avoiding forcing users through multiple, 52

conflicting information on, 28

containing a textual summary of an organization's purpose, 19

content organization of, 19-24

definition of, 7

designers of, 7

developing on Internet time, 7-8

with difficult Web addresses, 14

examples of poor quality and low usability, 2-3

first U.S., 6

focusing searching on specific content, 165-166

as front ends for large, complex transaction-processing systems, 204, 205

generating pages from templates, 141

identifying yourself to, 49

incomplete, 39

listing a set of items, 26

methods for designers to organize content, 24

muddling through baffling, 164

not going live until ready, 42

not read but scanned, 196

poorly identified, 14

propagating users' data throughout, 53-54

reflecting organizational charts , 84-89

releasing without testing on users, 283

resources required to update, 34-35

reviewing thoroughly before placing online, 42

segmented into subsites, 113

testing for organizational artifacts, 88

testing for usability, 37

text making up the bulk of, 195

total number of, 7

visitors to, 207

wasting customer time by failing to provide defaults, 131

with well-organized content, 24, 25

Wiesner Brothers website, poorly marked links, 222-224

Windows PCs

effective font sizes compared to Macintoshes, 254

text display compared to Macintoshes, 249

Windows, text resolution, 254

WisconSUN.org

avoiding duplicate links, 100, 101

poorly marked links, 222, 223, 224

true duplicate links, 95

World Wide Web. See Web

Wrapped Links: How Many? blooper, 234-236

writers. See technical writers

writing, sloppy , 217-220

writing style, inconsistent, 214-217

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