Catch common usability problems before user testing.

There is a saying I always liked: "Don't try to say again what has already been said better," With that on my mind, I present to you the following link. http://userium.com/ This a excellent checklist/tool in your web development arsenal that allows you to catch common usability problems before user testing. Enjoy, and happy coding.

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It’s Registration Season. What Should Be On Your Website?

Lots of Regions are in the thick of registration right now. Parents will be out there looking for places to sign their kids up for soccer. How do you make sure they sign up with your Region?

1. Make sure your homepage is up to date. Make sure that vital information such a registration times, dates and places are visible or somewhere that they can easily be located. These dates are the first thing parents are looking for when they go to your Region website right now.
    
2. Put together an FAQ for Registration. Parents will have questions about registration – what ages can you register your child at? How many registrations are left? I missed a registration, how can I still register? These are all questions that are common during registration, and if you have an FAQ page next to the registration information that contains these types of questions, you will eliminate the need for parents to physically call or email the Region. Don’t know which questions to put on the FAQ page? Ask the Regional Commissioner or the Registrar for your Region (or whoever fields those calls/emails).
    

Toggle Your Content in a Snap!

A common conundrum for web designers is how to make a lot of content easily accessible for their viewing audience. It’s difficult to navigate through a really long page with a bunch of jump links.

Here’s a clean and easy way to neatly organize your content so that it’s easy to navigate. We use the toggle method throughout the AYSO National website. If you’ve ever looked at one of the FAQ pages or the new Section Meeting microsite, I’m sure you’ve seen it!

jQuery Toggle Method

Let's use a FAQ example. You have a question with an associated answer. We only want to show the answer when you click on the question. With this method, clicking a second time on the question will hide the answer.

QUESTION: Where is the soccer field?

ANSWER: Down the street and around the corner.