On 2/9/07, William Pietri william@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