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\"construction-marketing-website-design\"<\/a>“Eating your own dog food<\/strong><\/a>” or “dogfooding<\/em>” is a term that means to use your own product or in my case, to take your own advice, which is something we all should do from time to time. I have eaten my own dog food. While spending the last few weeks concentrating on website design and layout, I started thinking about the blog. Over the last few weeks I have gone back and forth between a 2 column\u00a0 or 3 column layout, a new header, then back to the old one, and I tested a new color scheme. In the end, I have adopted the “F”<\/strong> word.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the “F” word!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Website usability is a key component to developing new business, and I like to develop new business. Which is why I always want darrenslaughter.com<\/a> to be as easy to use as possible. In chasing that rabbit down the hole, I have changed the blog a bit and adopted a somewhat non-traditional look for most blogs by having my sidebar on the left side of the page instead of on the right side. I have done this because we read web pages the same way we read text in a book or on a newspaper– our eyes automatically start at the top left and work their way across the page towards the right. Then we start again from the left on the next line.<\/p>\n

Take a look:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: Photo Credit: useit.com<\/p>\n

I have known about the “F” pattern of reading for a long time, but never adopted it here because I know you are probably used to reading blogs that are setup with their main content\/sidebar content and I didn’t want to make mine different. But after coming across Jakob Nielsen’s post again I thought a change was in order.<\/p>\n

From Jakob’s<\/a> findings:<\/p>\n

In our eyetracking study, we recorded how 232 users looked at thousands of Web pages. We found that users’ main reading behavior was fairly consistent across many different sites and tasks. This dominant reading pattern looks somewhat like an F and has the following three components:<\/p>\n