Usability is critical for every web site. If users find your site difficult to use they will leave regardless of how pretty it is or how neat your AJAX application works. Unfortunately, usability often takes a back seat to design and SEO.

Network World has a good interview with Steve Krug about how web 2.0 features impact usability.

Labels: usabilitiy

According to a Actinic survey; web designers are making more and more websites but the drop in prices have resulted in no additional revenue. They suggest one problem for web firms is a lack of efficiency in their design process.

The survey also found an increase in PHP over ASP and Unix over Windows as the preferred platform.

Labels: revenue, web designers