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The first article was written from the point of view of the user assessing the credibility of a website and drew parallels with going on a blind date. This article is written from the point of view of the website owner trying to encourage the user to interact with their site by creating and maintaining credibility.
In dating terms, this article is about how to impress your new friend and turn the friendship into a long term relationship.
&Web credibility is a lot like dating. I think the principles are roughly the same. This article, part one in a series, looks at how web credibility and blind dates are one and the same.
I stumbled across Stanford’s Web Credibility Guidelines and it really stuck a cord with me both as a web user and a developer. I decided to look into it further at where the problem was coming from and if it was actually important.
