a web design "theory"
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- kerus0
yeah vespa, some very good points being made without it being a poop-fight..
i guess "click here" in small doses can be alright...
it just gets old when one of our biggest clients wants MAIN navigation... written out text links scattered in copy like "click here for the blah blah blah" and then MORE text links down bottom with a click here... and they wont listen to reason.
so i am biased in other words ;)
- davetufts0
http://Clickhttp://Herehttp://tohttp://React
...completely unnecissary.
As stated above, read 'Design of Everyday Things'. If you mess with door handles (push/pull) people can't use them - even with instructions.
If you mess with links (grey text / grey links) people can't navigate, even if you add 'click here'.
- kerus0
there definitely has to be a distinction between "this color means static text and only text" and "this is color means links and only links"
- vespa0
yep, in fact too much text like
http://Click Here to reply to the statement below
definitely overcomplicates things and ends up confusing the user cos people tend to scan for keywords rather than reading whole sentences.
- vespa0
woops there goes me doing research into how to be a stupid person again!
- rasko40
vespa you linked porn!!
http://www.Click.com/index_a.sht…
you must be banned!! HEY QBN BAN THE VESPA!!!!
;)
- mitsu0
do not click http://here or http://here
- vespa0
did not!!
or actually I always wanted to join the banned club didn't I? Would give me a chance to get rid of this stupid name - I don't even ride a bloody vespa!!
- rasko40
did so!
yeah come on, go forth and abuse!
- CyBrainX0
Click here should have died with Netscape 2. It's bad writing and lazy design that leads to that horrible cliche.
You have to give even the average person some credit. Words don't always communicate the best. To use the door handle analogy, what works better an entrance sign, or the site of a door handle with no words on it?
If you're always designing for the dumbest possible person on the planet, what kind of site will you end up with?
I know there's always a place for everything, but this should generally be a LAST resort.
- ribit0
I can't believe a serious web design forum like this would have so much ignorance of the principles behinb the web, hyperlinks and all the rest of the stuff that Berners-Lee devised.
You don't need to go off talking about doors signage and stuff.
'Click Here' is simply a bastardization of what the web was meant to be, by ignorant commercial web developers. It is bad for accessibility, bad for scanning, communicates less information than the way it should be done... and it's lazy.
Dont do it. Do it right. Listen to Dave Tufts. (even if he did rip me off with those overpriced scripts in 2000)
- ribit0
Tim Berners Lee would be spinning in his grave if he saw this... if he was dead.
- cut&taste0
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this is from a former boss.."if you have to say 'CLICK HERE' then you're not doing something right."
agree or disagree?
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I agree because he says 'if you have to...' which means that there is a need to explain something that shouldn't need explanation rather than having it there just in case. On the other hand, having it there just in case translates as "not confident enough"
I disagree because it's a quite pompus remark.