Steve Bennett wrote:
On 2/9/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Yeah, there is the "more and more crap"
problem ... what would people
suggest removing, if anything?
Well here's my 2 cents:
Main page: scrap it, it's redundant. That's what clicking on the ball does.
A friend of mine recently redesigned a well-known website and got rid of
the textual home page link. In the user testing here in the San
Francisco area, it worked fine. When the site launched, it was their
number one usability problem, because many people don't know that a site
logo is a magic home link.
They wanted to make it more obvious that the logo was something special,
but didn't want to do anything as gauche as putting a blue border around
it. Their final solution was to make the logo highlighted on mouseover,
so that mere mortals could learn that it was a link to the home page.
William