If your website has a search feature, it’s important that visitors recognize it as such. And know how to use it.
Read our tips for a simple search interface
Search Results for: {search_term_string}
Analyse your own site search with Google Analytics
By telling Google Analytics how your search feature works, you can analyse your visitors’ search queries.
Find out how to hook up your search feature to Google Analytics
Navigation versus search
Is navigation still important? Or do most people use your search feature?
If you’ve never checked your logfiles, you’re in for a surprise…
Faceted search: 4 design tips
If you have a large range of closely related products or services, faceted search helps people to look for things based on criteria that are important for them.
What are the do’s and don’ts in faceted search?
Search results: layout tips
Make sure your search results pages help people find what they’re looking for fast.
Use these tips to reduce the drop-off on your search results pages
Analyse your site search to increase ROI
Finding out what people use your search feature for, helps you to know what your visitors really want. Once you know that, you can adjust your site accordingly.
Read our tips to turn that knowledge into profit
How to speed up your usability research with first-click testing or screenshot testing
For many people, usability research means user testing. But there are many other methods too. Less time-consuming methods that allow you to gather feedback from a larger group of users. At AGConsult, we like the screenshot testing tool Chalkmark. It’s an incredibly useful tool, especially for testing website structures and mock-ups.
Discover how we use Chalkmark to achieve good results faster
Search is no place to get creative
Creativity is a good thing. Getting overly creative when designing a search feature isn’t.
Read this short story about search in 4 screenshots
Homepage focus: Google
Google’s new homepage focuses 100% on search. Tools and advertising programs are not prominently displayed.
What makes Google’s homepage so great?
4 product comparison best practices
Comparing products is one of the top tasks on the web. Make it easy for users to compare your products or services.
Take a look at these 4 product comparison best practices
How to track down the least visited pages of your website and what to do with them
Producing content is fun. But are all those pages really helping users? Or are they getting in the way?
Read our step-by-step guide to putting your website on a diet
Conversion Hotel 2017: key insights
Conversion Hotel is not your everyday conference. It lasts for 3 days, on an island, and it has leading speakers from all over the world. No wonder it’s always sold out in no time.
Read our key insights from Conversion Hotel 2017
From Cultuurweb to UiTinVlaanderen.be: 300% more visitors
Usability improvements increased UiTinVlaanderen’s visitor numbers with 300%. The website also finished 2nd in 2 categories at the Usability Awards 2009.
How did they increase their visitor numbers so dramatically?
8 tips for the perfect title tag
The title tag is very important if you want to score well in Google.
Read our 8 tips for the perfect title tag
Page fold: myth or reality?
Is the page fold a myth? Do or don’t people scroll?
Find out everything you’ve always wanted to know about the page fold
Plan België: Usability Awards 2009 jury prize government or non-profit website
The website of Plan België charmed the jury with its good looks and user-friendliness.
Find out why Plan België won the 2009 Usability Awards
Key tips for copy that converts
At the Copywriting Conference 2018 we learned some key insights for copy that converts, from UX copywriters, direct mail strategists and other writing geniuses.
Get the key tips for copy that converts
Extremely advanced search
Advanced search. It sounds user-friendly, but most of the time it isn’t.
What is wrong with this advanced search feature?
Description tag: what is it and why is it so important?
The description tag is a hidden piece of html code that can make the difference between some visitors via Google and loads of visitors via Google.
What is a description tag and why should you care?
Usability and copywriting article roundup
Great articles on usability and copywriting, some quotes and a handy tool to check what your mailings look like in different mailclients.
Read them all
We grow your business by putting your customers first
To turn more of your visitors into happy customers. That’s our goal. Based on facts and research.
Discover how we can help your website.
5 tips to show users where they are on your website
Not everyone enters your website via the homepage. As a matter of fact, most people don’t.
Read our 5 tips to help people know where they are on your site
Terms and conditions
These general terms and conditions apply to all offers from and agreements with AGConsult, despite the presence of conflicting provisions indicated on documents of the customer. By placing an order, the customer accepts the general terms and conditions of AGConsult. All tenders and offers of AGConsult are without obligation until their acceptance by the customer. […]
Webdesign process: is the customer king?
Yes. And no. Depends on who you define as your customer.
Find out exactly which customer is king
Usability pot-pourri
2 articles about usability, a handy tool, a few quotes and a movie. A South Park spoof.
Go on, you know you want to see this stuff
And the winners of the Belgian Usability Awards 2010 are…
The winners of the Belgian Usability Awards 2010 are: UiT in Vlaams-Brabant, KrisKras and Karel de Grote-Hogeschool.
Find out why they’re so great
Brussels Airlines: public vote winner Usability Awards 2009
The task-oriented homepage and the user-friendly way of looking for and booking a flight are a few of the site’s highlights.
Find out why Brussels Airlines was a 2009 Usability Awards winner
Flash websites: not the best idea
A web page that takes more than 1 minute to load is a great big no-no.
See Sony Vaio bite the dust big time
48% of visitors on e-commerce websites don’t buy due to lack of usability
iPerceptions’ research shows that 48% of the people on e-commerce websites doesn’t buy due to lack of usability.
What causes these terrible numbers?
Title and description tags: a complete guide
The most complete guide to the most important metadata on the web: page title and description tags.
How do you write good page titles and description tags?
