Following yesterday’s best Web apps of 2009, here are the five best Ecommerce Websites of 2009:

• H&M
  
  H&M’s Ecommerce site, which is only offered in a few countries (excluding Canada), is clean and intuitive. Let’s hope they’ll implement it for Canada soon!

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2009 is almost over, which means it’s time for us to list the best Websites of the year! We have divided our picks into five categories: Apps, Ecommerce, Content, Brochure and Experimental. Stay tuned because we’ll be adding a category each week day! Let’s start with the five best Web Apps:

• Grooveshark
  
  Grooveshark is an online music player. Users can build their library from an exhaustive list of songs, which they can then listen to from anywhere. Its interface is polished and intuitive.

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We’re all aware of the issues newspapers face with the advent of the Web. They’re losing their readership to various free online Websites and blogs, thus decreasing their ad revenues.

Although most newspapers have an online presence to compete against those indirect competitors, those portals don’t draw enough money from advertisers. And even though the content is trimmed compared to the physical newspaper, it doesn’t really push people to buy the more profitable printed version.

In an effort to respond to these various issues, La Presse is now offering a new product called La Presse sur mon ordi. It’s like a sophisticated PDF viewer in which you can view scans of the printed newspaper on your computer. This allows La Presse to make money online with their paper version (it costs $10 per month) while keeping the same amount of advertisements. Although it’s a valiant effort to innovate, this new product presents many flaws.

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Are you free tomorrow night? Because you’ve just been invited to join us at the UX happy hour! It takes place tomorrow (December 3rd) from 5 to 8 PM at Laïka, located at 4040 St-Laurent Street.

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Inciting user registration is hard. That’s why I always like to discover new and original registration forms on the Web.

Moof.com, a social music sharing Website, has a registration form that is presented as a conversation where the user has to fill in the blanks. This makes it much more interesting than the usual signup form. This approach is more human, friendly and inviting. Plus, the form is right up on their homepage, which shows the user how short the registration process really is.

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