{"id":179,"date":"2014-09-22T10:07:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T14:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devbbsis.local\/?p=179"},"modified":"2014-09-22T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T14:07:46","slug":"web-site-quality-indicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharpinnovationsolutions.ca\/blog\/web-site-quality-indicators\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Site Quality Indicators"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the ongoing innovations in web design is support for higher quality and more variety in web fonts and better typography in general. Jason Santa Maria has recently published a book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On Web Typography\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the A Book Apart series on web design. One of the topics is using proper characters like smart quotes instead of the default straight quotes. This is part of a larger topic about how to judge web site quality (more on that coming in additional articles). This is a very large topic but let’s review a few quick examples that can be found from examining web site text.<\/p>\n

Spelling Mistakes<\/h2>\n

The quickest indicator of lack of quality control on even the most stylish sites are spelling mistakes. This usually means the person didn’t read or at least didn’t sufficiently check their own writing and if it wasn’t worth it for them to review why should you?<\/p>\n

Use of Smart Quotes and Other Special Characters<\/h2>\n

One quick way to see if your web site is of high quality is to check the quote and other special characters. Smart quotes show that the designer cares about typography and pays attention to details enough to use the proper characters.
\nexample: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smart quotes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d "Dumb quotes".<\/span><\/p>\n

Primes which are used to denote feet and inches as well as longitude and latitude co-ordinates are a different character than straight quotes.
\nexamples: <\/p>\n

Feet and inches
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was 6\u00e2\u20ac\u00b24\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 and full of muscle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nLatitude and longitude 40\u00c2\u00b0 44\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2 54.3588\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 N, 73\u00c2\u00b0 59\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2 8.3616\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 W<\/p>\n

You can see these character differences even more prominently displayed and the key shortcuts to enter the characters at Smart Quotes for Smart People<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For an overview and praise for Jason\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book you might like the article on Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Accents<\/h2>\n

Many words in their proper form contain accents.<\/p>\n

Example: The one I use the most often is Orl\u00c3\u00a9ans, Ontario. Many fierce debates were held to decide that it was important to include the accent which in this case denotes the French heritage of where I live.<\/p>\n

References<\/h2>\n

In addition to Jason\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On Web Typography<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d published by A Book Apart 2014<\/p>\n

Robin P. Williams wrote a classic style manual for the Macintosh<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Mac is not a Typewriter<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d published by Peachpit Press in 2003.<\/p>\n

Robin has also written a design book<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Non-Designer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Design Book<\/a>, 3rd edition\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

A 4th edition<\/a> is estimated to be released in December 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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