September 2010 Officially Spring for the southern hemisphere. Yipee. Finally. Clean up your website as you would do your garden or home. 
DIY New Website Plan
DIY Search Engine Plan
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Verdana Font is Easy on the Eyes
Tired eyes and a tired mind drive visitor’s away from your website. Minimise online reading strain with a simple change of font from say Times New Roman to the popular font made specifically for easy online reading, Verdana.
Fonts needs to be simple and have enough space. Some fonts are way too fancy to be easily read online. Even Times New Roman can be too fancy. It’s from the Serif family which means it has bits and pieces on each letter that the eye must wade through and brain must process. Whereas, Verdana - Arial - Helvetica are all from the Sans Serif family. Clean, no extra bits, easy on the eyes and brain.
Use a different font for headings if you wish but sometimes just a larger size or different weight such as bold or italics will do the job.
Tired eyes in low lighting can fatigue eyes very quickly. Keep your readers feeling positive and energetic about being on your website. Don’t fatigue your readers with busy fancy, difficult to read fonts.
Want to suggest a font that drives you mad? There’s a whole campagin against using Comic Sans but that’s the topic of a future post. Til then, what tempts you to click off at the site of it? Add a comment, please.
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- Blog Basics Part 2: How to Read and Understand a Blog Website - December 1st, 2007
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- Cheat-Readers Thrive Online - September 2nd, 2007
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