On 2/9/07, William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
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.
Same thing happened on Flickr's redesign; they ended up putting a
'Home' link back in their top-bar, even though the logo worked to get
back to the site's top page.
Seasoned web users know this convention; newbies don't.
-Matt