Creating Consistent Text for Web Site UI Elements
Vootie (907 points) | Thu, 2010-08-19 11:40
Excerpted from The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Source for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World.
Can first-time users find their way around your site easily and locate what they're looking for? Before you say yes, put yourself in front of their keyboards.
Your site's usability depends on the design and features of your user interface (UI), but it also depends on the quality of your user-interface text: the copy that orients people on your site and helps them move around it. Clickable headings, links, and buttons; feedback and error messages; and user-assistance text like FAQs and help pages—they can provide site visitors with a great experience or can frustrate and confuse them.
If people need to interact with buttons, radio buttons, and checkboxes to use your site, they require consistently stated, helpful text.
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Wow, that's nice of Yahoo.
But the snarky side of me really wants to say, "Do you really want to follow Yahoo on web design fashion?"
... L like your snarky side!
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