[IxDA Discuss] "home" links

[W Evans]

There is never a reason to not make the logo also a home link - there is no
cost, and many people actually do understand that it is a pseudo-standard.
But an explicitly labeled home link in the global (not local) navigation is
equally - if not more important. Unless --- your site info arch lends itself
well to breadcrumbs - and those are easily findable/readable (i.e. not size
5 font in light grey next to a silly flash movie) - then home in the
breadcrumbs is a good thing too. As Nielson (who is a weenie and his site is
still ugly and has terrible IA) - argues - there is no cost to breadcrumbs
either.

-- 
~ will

"No matter how beautiful,
no matter how cool your interface,
it would be better if there were less of it."
Alan Cooper
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will evans
user experience architect
wkevans4 at gmail.com
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On Feb 4, 2008 2:35 PM, David Talbot <herr.talbot at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that whether to put a "home" link on the menu or on the logo or
> both
> should depends, as it was previously said, on the kind of public that your
> site is designed for.
>
> I personnaly got an issue with the "Home" button of one of my sites. I
> used
> to put it in the logo because I thought it was standard and would be found
> by everyone (I also read somthing about this idea in Krug's book).
> Unfortunately I was wrong and I got complaints from some users that they
> could not go back home unless by hittin the browser's "back" button. So I
> added a "home" link, but I also let the link on the home button too. In my
> case, this is a site for eco-tourism and people who will surf on it might
> not know web standard. I guess should have considered this in the
> beginning.
>
> David
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