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Designing Sites for Children and Young Adults
As more and more children start using the web, the need for website that cater to their needs continues to grow. Here you'll find some tips on where to start in terms of designing usable and well designed website for kids.

Why Users Love Orkut
Orkut- Orkut is the most popular social networking site in Brazil. It gained popularity despite poor usability. Social pressure increased the the use of Orkut, while the application did not catch on in the United States.

Web Accessibility for Color Blind Users
About 5-8% of men (estimates vary) suffer from some form of colorblindness. In its most common form, red and green are indistinguishable. Best practice is to avoid dependency on color for coding, popout, and highlights.

Web Accessibility for Visually Impared Users
Visually impaired users will need to use one or more techniques to make text more readable, including varying font size, background contrast, and resorting to screen readers.

Automated Accessibility Testing
You can use one of several automated tools to help you assess the accessibility of your web site. They can be very useful in helping you to identify and correct most problems. However, keep in mind that these products won’t identify all accessibility problems, and may misidentify others.

Usability for Senior Citizens
Elderly users represent a growing segment of the online population. There are more than 36 million senior citizens (people who are at least 65 years old) in the United States alone. By following a few simple rules of thumb, designers can make sites more accessible for the older demographic and as a result, more successful.

Date Formats, Punctuation, Units, and More
Many basic formatting elements vary between countries. This is a quick list of the the formatting elements you need to consider when internationalizing your web site.

Make Room for Multiple Languages
When internationalizing your web site, you need to accommodate the space requirements of multiple languages. Buttons, navigation, and other elements need to accommodate words and phrases that have dramatically different widths in multiple languages.