I think that captchas will drive away some of your visitors. Captchas are irritating, annoying and damage user experience.
Most of the times, Captchas are used to prevent spammers to use automated programs to insert spam into your websites. This is a good reason to use a captcha as long as it is effective against spam.
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Making a quality website requires creativity. Being creative can be difficult, especially if you must be creative instantly. Being creative requires the right environment and setting. And if you are able to create the right setting, you must take your time to be creative. How can you optimize your creativity?
Prioritize your work and […]

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Today Google released a message on its Adsense Weblog to explain the pound key.
Search the pound key
Google verifies telephone numbers by asking users to key in a 6-digit verification number. To complete this procedure, the pound key should be pressed. That seems to be problematic because only few people have a pound key (₤) on […]

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You will note that this movie is already aged. But at least I now know where to look for my birthday present if the affordable version is launched.
Interesting about this new technology is probably the wide area of possibilities that will emerge. Especially if these screens are portable (light weight and energy efficient) and not […]

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Sometimes you run across multi-language sites that offers links to different translations of the website. Although providing for these hyperlinks may seem easier than making the translations, the hyperlinks themselves need some attention to get the best result. Below you will find a summary of some pointers to leading your visitor to translations of your […]

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Jakob Nielsen wrote a very interesting column about the increase in skills of the average internet users. Surprisingly, skills only slightly improved and usability guidelines remain constant.
Jakob starts his column with two counter-arguments against usability.

“You’re testing idiots — most users are smarter and don’t mind complexity.”
“You were right in the past, but users have […]

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We all know that our visitors will not stay on our websites forever. However, we all hope that they will remember us and return to the great content we provide. Nevertheless, we should take an effort to improve user experience but also to minimize nuisance and negative user experiences.
One of the areas of improvement is […]

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