Hyperlinks indicate that clicking on a piece of text or image will take you to related information.
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Buttons replacing a link for a consistent style
In general, I use buttons for ajax calls that update the UI but am thinking whether a button is a good metaphor for links also. I am using Twitter Bootstrap. Not a designer by trade and would like any ...
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Hover state for Step-based navigation
I'm stumped on figuring out what the proper hover state for a step-based navigation workflow should be.
The navigation appears below. There are 3 states. Completed, Active, and Not-Yet-Completed. The ...
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Is using an entire banner as a link bad usability?
I am working on a eCommerce site which has a large hero banner space which scrolls through a number of 865 X 450 px banners. Each of these banners is linked to a specific offer in the site. When I ...
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How can I indicate that images can be clicked on a mobile site?
I've created a mobile site with a portfolio page. On the desktop version, hovering the mouse over the images changes the mouse pointer to a finger indicating the image is hyperlinked.
To try to get ...
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Linking a Navigation menu item to external URL
3 of 7 links on my navigation menu are external links to others websites (same company but other services/not the same domain). Those websites are not the core of the business.
Linking a navigation ...
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When should hyperlinks be underlined?
Have you noticed that more and more websites have removed underlines from hyperlinks? For example, the current beta test of Google doesn't have underlines on the search results.
Google, along with ...
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Is it okay to open a help link in a new window?
I have read Jacob Nielson's usability book and he says links should never open in a new window. Here are some of his reasons:
Novice users cannot manage multiple windows and become disoriented.
The ...
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When is it considered a link and when is it already considered a button?
I mean take a look at the http://ux.stackexchange.com homepage. There is a yellowish link "Ask Question" =: missing the, big Letters like in headings etc.
However, there is also a link like "read the ...
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How to render text that contains a tooltip / hover state?
I'm wondering about the best way to represent text that contains a flyout / tooltip (similar to Foursquare - see image below) but is not a link to another page.
In my case, there are a number of ...
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Should the “reset” option be a button or a link in crm?
I'm having to make the page as it was in the initial state, and this includes having a form reset link or button.
Should the reset be a button or a link?
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'Sponsored Links' impact on conversion rate
It seems it's cool to share useful links and bump a bit ranks of the sites that were useful for you.
Probably putting 'Sponsored links' or 'Useful links' section to your website makes you a pal but ...
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Should Wizard steps be clickable links?
I'm designing a reusable Wizard that will be used in multiple places of my web application. It is designed to be truly modular - we detect the number of stages and whether each has been completed by ...
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A button with a link: understandable or confusing?
I'm working on a design of a touchscreen version of some web application. Since it's a touchscreen I would like all clickable elements to be rather big and easy to tap (it's a simple kiosk, so ...
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Does a list of links constitute a good user interface? [closed]
I'm working with another department on an intranet design:
My criticism is that the page just looks like lists of links in boxes, and that it's not obvious what this page is for or what you're ...
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What's the correct UI for displaying actions related to a link without obstructing it?
I would like to allow the user to view stats or add tags to links on a website but that's a very rare use case since most users would never interact with the links beyond just clicking on them to go ...
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Why does ux.stackexchange.com use a darker colour to indicate visited links?
Why does this site use a darker colour for links that have been clicked on? When scan reading down the pages all I notice are links I've already visited, completely ignoring the pale blue links.
To ...
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Usability of linking to target ID on page refresh
One of our partners is building an application I designed and tested in Axure. I had inferred some AJAX interactions with changing and adding some content to a page, but the developers have built this ...
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Making a linked page more obvious?
I've got a portfolio much like the one displayed below. One of the people who I have shown the portfolio to, asked if I could put some live version of the game/web page in action, or have some video ...
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Clickable List on homepage
When creating a list that you wish to be a display of clickable links to a full page of more detailed information, what is a good way to display this? In the Balsamiq example below, is a sketch of ...
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Why is there a link to the current page?
If you are reading this, that might mean that you have opened this question (or maybe previewing the question). If you have indeed opened this question, when you click on the question title it links ...
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Navigation & Link Hover State
Note: Please link me if this has been asked, I couldn't find what I was looking for
I just had a conversation with my mate who is an Art Director in regards to a website he designed, when it was ...
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Is it OK to use links to display GUI elements or perform actions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
HTML buttons vs hyperlinks for navigation
HTML links were born to show internal or external pages, or take you to a specific page position (anchors).
Now, with the ...
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Do people use `jump to top of page` links?
I'm talking about links or buttons at the bottom of the page or screen simply linking to the top of the website.
Is there any data on that?
Are they used more frequently on long pages?
What about ...
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How to indicate that an image is a link too?
I have a section in my website called "Techonology" that is not part of the main content where I put the logos of each technology used in the website (PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap, etc). But I'm searching ...
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Is it harder to locate a link in the side navigation compared to top navigation
Most of the side navigations scroll along with the page and the problem I find when using those kind of websites is that you can't remember the position of the link as while scrolling you are ...
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Copy/pasting something that's clickable
I have a use case where an element on the page is the most obvious place to link from the list view to the instance view, but users also sometimes need to copy/paste the element text.
Because the ...
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Should hyperlink text color be changed after visited
I must admit sometimes it is useful but i realy dislike it.
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How to differentiate users with accounts from guests in a ranking table?
In a game, I have a table with the max points of the players.
Some of the users are registered and others are guests (anonymous). The difference is that the name of registered users has a link to ...
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How to explain best that there is more to a headline? (Icon, Text, etc)
We want to show "news headlines" within a google map (the news where it happend).
The news will show up in speech bubbles. Only the headline will be shown first. If a user want to read more, he has ...
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Linking into an infinite scrollable stream
I have a web app that contains a stream of entries with a "more..." button at the bottom that loads in older entries. If one of the entries is selected then the right panel displays details on that ...
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Is 'Home' button still a must?
I was wondering if the 'Home' button is still a must on a website menu, or are users already used to clicking on the Logo?
There is a qustion on ux.stackexchange.com about this topic - Home button vs ...
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Link color used for email
What is the recommendation for link color behaviors when it comes to a text link for someone's email address? For example: jane@janedoe.com
The following thread, for example, has a variety of ...
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Product image links
The scenario: customer navigates to the start page of a e-commerce book site, is presented with various offers on new books. Books is shown just by its fairly large cover.
Example: ...
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Where to put the link to admin section?
I have a website with searchable information for users (catalogue, search, item details, etc.). The site does not offer (and doesn't need) any log-in functionality (content is never personalised and ...
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Are links with images more likely to be clicked on?
I am working on making the home page of a blog, and I want as many people as possible to click on the posts in the home page and read them.
I'm thinking of listing the post title, and then a quick ...
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Why two kind of links should be visually different in a site? [closed]
In a site we have different kind of links, some are pure user related, some are pure navigational. Some are linked headings (which are black).
Are we going too far away from best practices? Is there ...
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How to determine whether links have enough contrast?
I find it very hard to distinguish links from normal text on Programmers Stack Exchange, especially visited links on wall-of-text posts. The colour scheme used is:
Background #fafafa (there's a ...
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Best way to link to PDFs/Word docs/etc?
I need to include links to PDFs, Word docs and other document types on a web page. A lot of sites display an icon for the file type, plus the file size. I'm inclined to remove both the icon and file ...
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Use subdomains or directory structure for URLs?
I'm curious if it's considered better practice to use a subdomain (e.g. store.website.com) or a directory (e.g. www.website.com/store) when linking to separate sections of a site.
Assuming both ...
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How should the [Big Buy Now Button] in the right gutter be linked?
I'm redisigning my website and would like to know how the "Big Buy Now Button" in the right gutter should be linked. This button will be available on every page of the site.
I sell two software ...
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Is there a convention for distinguishing internal and external links in a website?
From a user point of view, I think it is a reasonable idea to distinguish internal and external links. By internal links, I mean links that have the same domain name than the website displaying the ...
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What's a good pattern for edit in place with hyperlinks?
I have a datagrid with many columns that I want to be able to edit in place. Some of the values in the table are hyperlinks. I want to be able to follow the hyperlinks and also edit them. The row ...
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From the usability point of view are text links in italics a good or a bad idea?
A colleague of mine (web designer) would like to style the titles of content in italics for aesthetic reasons. The problem is those titles are also text links to the related full content view. When ...
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Link to older posts should point to the left or right? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which direction indicates newer/older?
At the end of a list of blog posts there is often a link to previous posts. Somtimes this link is extended with an arrow pointing ...
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Navigation Bar, mixing links and buttons
I am trying to create a navigation menu with 2 functions in it... the website 'page' navigation links and 'action' buttons... sort of like this image
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Use of 'read more' on teaser copy on index pages - is it necessary?
I have noticed that on a lot of news web sites that they no longer tend to use a 'click here' or a 'read more' link at the end of teaser text as a call to action. They tend to rely on the Article ...
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Is “Read more” a good link text?
Excerpts of posts displayed on a blog index page usually end with a link saying "Read more", "Continue reading", or similar.
Now, it's very well understood why "click here" is not a good link text, ...
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What is an elegant way to distinguish a normal link from a bookmarklet link?
How do you visually tell to your user that a given link is a bookmarklet so it should not be clicked but just bookmarked?
Is there a proper and recognized icon to use to alert the user that a given ...
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Using hyperlinks for navigation and commands on the same page
I am working on a government web application. We have specified in the style guide that buttons will be used for primary actions and other secondary actions within the page will use hyperlinks. There ...
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Is it a good idea to add tooltip to some text that says exactly the same?
Having tooltips on icons and images is understandable and the same goes for small pieces of links where tooltips may elaborate to the user what that particular link would do. Sometimes, however, ...
