In The Rush to Socialize Does Your Website Look Stupid?
All types of companies are endeavouring to make their website Social Media friendly. One of the aspects that can lead to success here is the use of social widgets on the site to allow users to share information about your site with others in their network. Whether socializing a product website or an on-line magazine the end result can be the same if the newly added widgets are not effectively tested.
Here is one example of just such a site:
The content may be vital to the reader, but it is obliterated, in part, by the new social widget that sits on the left hand side of the page. It is a common sense design criteria that it is possible to use spare ‘white space’ (or indeed the background) that exists on any website. However there are two cardinal sins on this particular website:
◊ Covering the site banner, and
◊ Overlaying text
It is possible that the site owners have not tested the widget on all browsers, as this writer is currently using a new update of Firefox, yet the end result is not pleasing and destroys the reader’s ‘customer experience’. Instead of commenting on the article through one of the links provided it brings up a site design issue and hence the comment here.
It is true that another person can go to the same site and not experience the same issue, yet it remains true that there is no substitute for testing. Most of these glitches are also ironed out very soon as in a week’s time even this writer will not find the same issue upon returning to the page. The fact remains that however temporary the effect is unprofessional.
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