According to this article by Jacob Nielson, the Home button is still
needed.
A fairly large minority of users still don't know that they can get
to a site's homepage by clicking its logo, so I still have to
recommend having an explicit home link on all interior pages (not
on the homepage, of
There is another option that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread
yet. For a more explict link than the linking of the logo, instead of
taking up the left-most spot in a horizontal main nav bar or the top
spot in a vertical nav bar, you can put it with other unobtrusive,
ancillary links in the
Ah, not showing the home button until you're away from home. This reminds me
of the a href=http://nytimes.com;New York Times/a. I can't click the
title of the paper or the home tab to refresh the front page (a frequent
want on intense news days/nights). I'm not using it to 'reset' myself in
Jeff said, I don't think the numbers tell everything about the
usefulness of this or any other function (I've only needed a seatbelt
once, but I was glad to have it), so Bryan's data doesn't surprise me.
Some familiar controls may be worth keeping for the sake of user comfort
and convenience, more
In addition to what Joroen just said, I'd like to ask you guys how does
the home on rollover logo helps Aunt Tilly to find her way to the
home page, providing she has no idea about the logo working as a
navigational item.
I mean, if you have a clue about this standard, it's obvious that the
Reset notwithstanding, for many sites, the content on the home page
is introductory, and the navigation is universal. Thus, if you're on
an inner page, and you want to go somewhere else, there's really no
reason to go home to do it. There are plenty of exceptions of course
(a newspaper site
Another advantage of the reset function that I've used a lot
myself: You're exploring a site and, the more you see, the more you
think you might like to come back again. You don't necessarily want
to bookmark the page where you figured that out; you probably want
the introductory page.
It's a
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
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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
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
Discuss] home links
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
You could split the difference with the Amazon treatment - the logo reveals
'homepage' on rollover.
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Does anyone have any research and/or rules-of-thumb about the
usefulness of putting home in the permanent navigation? I tend to
want to leave it off because A) on most sites, I feel like once the
user is in the site, there's not really much of a reason for them to
go home, and B) The click
The thing that makes me crazy is when sites don't follow the design
convention of using the main site branding or logo being a constant link
throughout the site to the site's front door. I don't see these pages as
being a home as much as I see them as an essential navigational portal
into the
Micah,
Your sort of answered the question yourself. Your answer should be derived
from your users. If Aunt Tilly is a significant user type, or actual
persona, then by all means include home in the main navigation.
In a general, unless there is a space issue, brand issue, or some other
I'd echo what Christine and Joseph say, and add that in some cases
you can simply view the site's name or title in the same way you
would a logo. I personally don't like the generic Home link,
either, but I like using a consistent text link in the main nav that
functions as a home link.
http://www.bryanminihan.com
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Bryan,
These results are quite interesting; thanks for sharing.
You mentioned, We
On 3-Feb-08, at 7:03 AM, Micah Freedman wrote:
A) on most sites, I feel like once the
user is in the site, there's not really much of a reason for them to
go home,
Can you explain what you mean here? In my observations of how people
use site navigation, I've seen them using the home link
A) on most sites, I feel like once the user is in the site, there's not
really
much of a reason for them to
go home,
Can you explain what you mean here? In my observations of how people
use site navigation, I've seen them using the home link as their
default navigation reset,
Bryan,
These results are quite interesting; thanks for sharing.
You mentioned, We found the Home link was the least clicked link in the
banner, with something like less than 1-2% of clicks for the entire
banner (the primary nav consisted of about 9-10 visible links, with
several popup menus of
reasons why I don't work there anymore, but the
above is one of the more interesting ones.
Bryan
http://www.bryanminihan.com
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In a casual review, I found
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