Website Usability and other tweaks

Written by George Thursday, 02 April 2009 19:00

This site has been up for a couple of months now and we have constantly tried to upgrade and update the contents and usability of the site so that all the users of this site can benefit. We started with a simple design and some static content, some pictures and then some videos. Then we came to the realization that as we start adding stuff to the site, this method is not ideal from the stand point of maintaining the content and making sure that we do not have any wrong or outdated information on the site. So we silently converted the static website to a content management system. We kept the same design in the front end, so the users did not have to see any change. We think that change was a big success for it met its goal of simplifying the management of content. It is simple, straightforward and organized.

Now we move to the next phase of tweaking - how to improve little things on the website to make a difference to the user. One of the pages that has a lot of visitors is the 'Availability' page. This page list what birds are available at any point of time. This is time sensitive data, but no where on the page does it say when it was updated last. So we added a small statement on top of the page saying something like 'This Information is current as of Month Year'. This should provide the user with the comfort that the information is current and they are not getting misled by some information which is an year old. Please do check the 'Availability' page and see for yourself. These are the kind of tweaks that I want to make to the site to make it more user friendly. Stay tuned for more of these kind if tweaks, or if you have any suggestions on how we can improve, then please do let us know by contacting us.