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Should general 404 page be shown to the user if he clicks one-time link second time?
There is a Sign up function in a web application. After user signs up, an email message with confirmation link is sent to his email address. This confirmation link is obviously valid only one time.
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How should removed pages be handled in e-commerce sites?
On my e-commerce website I create many sale event/campaign related categories which are put offline after a specific event/campaign is over. Lots of customers bookmarks those category page and then ...
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3answers
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Is displaying search bar in Search Result/Error 404 page redundant (when it's already on sidebar/header)?
Is it redundant to display the search bar on Search Result or Error 404 page again when the website already has it on the sidebar/side navigation or on header?
I've always felt it's kind of redundant ...
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4answers
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Is there ever a circumstance where the user should be notified of a user interface no-op?
The headline may be a bit confusing, so here's a web example (although this question is equally applicable to desktop applications):
I open up the same eBay listing in 2 separate tabs of my web ...
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2answers
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What image and message use in the “Not found” page (404 error page) [closed]
I've seen the robot of Google, the creature that has Github. I think that is question of imagination and what kind of data manages your web app to design a custom image and the message to show to the ...
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4answers
406 views
Error message that always appears in the same place
Is it okay if error messages always appear in the same place on a website? I know the right thing to do is place errors inline, close to where the error occured. But there's hundreds of errors that ...
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12answers
703 views
Blocking IE6: Deny outright or warn of issues?
We're looking at (finally) retiring IE6 support.
I've always been a big fan of graceful degradation but we're really pushing ahead and trying to embrace features that we're simply not going to want ...
