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A hyperlink (aka link) is the most basic interface on websites. In fact, we can trace hyperlinks back to the origins of the web, with Tim Berners-Lee’s ENQUIRE, where each new page had to link to another. Links connect all of our content together and come in many forms; from links contained in a paragraph to a list of links that we’ve come to know as navigation menus. This article is a discussion on designing hyperlinks, offering a few tips and…
Problem summary The user needs to know his location in the website’s hierarchical structure in order to possibly browse back to a higher level in the hierarchy. Example Usage Use when the structure of the website follows a strict hierarchical structure of similar formatted content. Use when the structure of the site is parted in to sections which can be divided into more subsections and so on Use when the user is most likely to have landed on the page…
by Michael Smethurst The other day I was chatting with some of the designers at work about secondary navigation and the subject of breadcrumb trails came up. Breadcrumb trails are those bits of navigation summed up by Jakob Nielsen as: a single line of text to show a page’s location in the site hierarchy. While secondary, this navigation technique is increasingly beneficial to users. and illustrated on Wikipedia by: Home page > Section page > Subsection page For reasons which will hopefully become clear…