How Do People Evaluate a Web Site's Credibility?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday November 8, 2002 @11:54PM from the drudgereport dept.

theduck writes "Ever suspected (or feared) that web users are mostly mindless sheep evaluating your website more by the eye candy than your carefully crafted content? Well, it appears you were right. A study resulting from a collaboration between Consumer Webwatch and The Stanford Pervasive technology Lab reports that even though consumers say that they look for content first when evaluating the credibility of a website, they actually focus primarily on design look and information design/structure (i.e. ease of navigation). Of course, the study's methodology might have something to do with the results..."

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http://validator.w3.org/ by Mustang+Matt · 2002-11-09 06:26 · Score: 3, Informative

http://validator.w3.org/

Go there now... Make your site compliant... Resistance is futile... (Slashdot doesn't pass)

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Re:Not that a good design is a bad thing. by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · 2002-11-09 09:34 · Score: 3, Informative

People seem to think that design is all about making it look pretty. It's not. It's as important as the IA behind it. What's the point in having good AI if the layout is design confusingly, and mixes the wrong elements together? or it's unclear where the sections are in a page etc?