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1). Print-this-page function - a bad idea and its solutionReading in a browser is different than from paper
Writing text for online reading is different than composing an article for a printed magazine. One assumption is that visitors are “jumpier” than readers. Subtitles, shorter sentences and paragraphs are key-elements in formatting online text to best effect.
The visitor’s interest needs to be captured before clicking on the next link.
2). Launch your site, before it is finished
Launch your site, before it is finished.
When you launch a site, you face three major problems: The search engines don't know you, the users don't know you and you might not have any meaningful amount of content. These problems can cost you time, before your site starts to pay off.
Three solutions to hit the ground running on launch day.
Waiting for the search engines
Telling “Google” your new web-address is only getting you a spot in its sandbox.
3). Good Links: 7 guidelines how to improve usability
How you write and design your links is crucial to your visitors clicking them or not. Write them badly and they leave, write them well and they stay. Who knows, they might even do exactly that what you created your site for. Following are 7 guidelines how links should be written to improve the usability of your site.
Do it consistently
Visitors learn for example how a website marks the links or where the "related-content box" can be found.