Web and PC Design and Development

Web and PC Usability Design and Development

Usability is crucial - If a web site or a system isn't easy to use, people just won't use it.
Benefit from IT provides design, development, search engine listing placement optimisation, consultancy and training for web sites and PC-based systems, with a strong empasis on usability.
We provide examples of our capabilities in web usability, design, DHTML, Javascript and ColdFusion aka Cold Fusion.
Benefit from IT is a trading name of Nectorplan Limited, 32 Pump Lane, Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom.
Philip Chalmers developed this web site using DHTML (HTML, CSS and Javascript).
New features:

We have moved to a new host.
All new pages will be loaded to the new site, not to this one.

Please update your IE Favorites / Netscape Bookmarks / Opera Hotlist / wherever you note the addresses of interesting web sites and pages.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but the new site will enable us to provide a wider range of content - keep an eye on the “New features” section of the new site's home page.

We will keep this site (the old one) online until the end of March 2004 but we will not update it.

Web usability course:  Navigation - introduction  and  Navigation - in your site

List of published articles.

email us email us if you have any comments or queries about them


Good design based on usability

If a web site or a system isn't usable, no amount of artistry or technical cleverness will entice people to use it.

Our Web design for usability tutorial explains how to make your site usable.

Eye-catching design and technical sophistication

We use these provided they help the user to achieve his / her objectives.

Our site summary outlines the techniques we use.

Different design approaches for different sites

In a site aimed at the general public we keep things simple unless there's a very strong case for using additional design elements or technical tricks:

But we use more sophisticated approaches where a site's target users or objectives require them, for example:

How to contact us

The easiest way is probably to email us - use our email form the form opens in a new window.

Or you can contact us by:

Post    32 Pump Lane, Rainham, Gillingham, Kent ME8 7AB, England
Phone    01634 373205