One of those little tidbits that bloom into necessary knowledge handed out at the New Media course was the navigability of a project. Amazon.com was seen as a well planned out map that is user friendly (as well as sales-friendly for Amazon).
However…in starting my Christmas online shopping I ran across a constant source of aggravation on almost every website I visited. Now it could be just me, and if you know a better way than I beg you to tell me, but in filling out the address form why, oh why, do we have to take our fingers off the keyboard to click open a menu for the state or country?
Am I just not a good shopper and haven’t discovered the secret of filling in this area yet?
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Just tab to the state list to select it then type the first letter of the state. No clicking.
John, thank you–you’ve just erased the grumpies from nine years of computerizing!
Now, if you could only fix my chair to keep it from millimetering in a downward spiral at a unpredetermined aggravating rate, maybe I can enjoy this Christmas shopping experience.
Also, if you use the Firefox browser it remembers as much non secure data as you wish it to remember – for example, I log in at various places either as daisy or the real me (now there’s a conundrum!) so it offers me both login details to choose from. It’s especially useful in blogging because some blogs don’t “remember” your name, email, url so all I have to do is clickety click through the names already typed in once. If that’s all gibberish (my fevered brain is having a hard time coping with Christmas lists), let me know and I’ll send a single self-explanatory screenshot 🙂
p.s. I found myself getting very angry at the McAfee site the other day when it wouldn’t let me use Firefox to order software for a friend’s computer, insisted on Explorer. I didn’t place an order and persuaded her to use AVG (free!) instead. I don’t mind using IE but I do mind a huge company not setting up sales forms to allow for non IE use.