University Relations and the Walker Teaching 
Resource Center are pleased to sponsor a web 
conference on WEBSITE USABILITY: TIPS, TECHNIQUES 
& TESTING.  Any/all are welcome to attend.

Conference Dates:
--February 23, 1:00 - 3:00 pm (topic: Home page Usability)
--March 1, 1:00 - 3:00 pm (topic: Going Beyond 
the Home page- Writing for the Wired World)
--March 4, 1:00 - 3:00 pm (topic: Usability 
Testing- What You Need to Get Started)

Location: To be announced.  PLEASE email me if 
you'd like to register/come to the sessions (one 
or all of them) so we can determine the size room 
we need.

Here is more information about the program....

INSTRUCTOR: 
<https://www.academicimpressions.com/web_conferences/usability.htm#instructors> 
Darlene Fichter- Data Coordinator, University of 
Saskatchewan

OVERVIEW AND PROGRAM:
Web sites need to anticipate the user's 
expectations and choose appropriate design 
elements that make it easy to find and use 
information. Designing the perfect home page, 
effective navigation, organization and structure 
for a web site is a challenging process. How do 
you know that your site works and is easy to use? 
What works best? There is a mountain of research 
studies about web site usability and 
effectiveness. Don't spend your time inventing a 
new wheel – learn from these studies. Pick up 
best practices and techniques that you can use to 
ensure you have "user-focused" and effective site 
design. Avoid the pitfalls of designing for what 
users say they like by watching what they 
actually do.

This series will provide information and 
strategies for designing effective web sites 
based on findings from usability studies and 
research into user behavior.  Learn how to apply 
this research to the design, organization, layout 
and creation of content and interactive services 
on your own web site. The topics covered in the 
series will focus on the usability and 
credibility of your home page, creating 
compelling and effective content for pages in 
your site, and how to create out usability tests 
of your site to identify and correct problems.

Learn techniques and methods for optimizing your 
university or college site to achieve your 
business goals and the user's goals. Hear about 
real life examples of testing of higher education 
web sites.

This web conference series will bring you and 
your staff a wealth of practical information that 
can be put to use immediately. It will stimulate 
discussion and planning for new web projects.

All three sessions will be offered on the UTC campus.
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