Hyperlinks indicate that clicking on a piece of text or image will take you to related information.
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Why shouldn't we use words such as 'here' and 'this' in textlinks?
Over the years of surfing on the web I have found numerous examples of people saying that you shouldn't use the word "here" in a textlink etc. Personally I like the idea of using the word, because it ...
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What are the differences between buttons and links?
What are the differences between buttons and links?
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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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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 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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When should hyperlink text be used?
Should text links always be text or are there cases when it makes more sense to simply link the URL?
Examples
A text link might look like this: Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design ...
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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, ...
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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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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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Hyperlink the verb or the noun?
I'm telling users to get something and where they can get it. Should I hyperlink the action or the destination? Which of the following would be easier for the user to parse and execute?
You need ...
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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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Do people use tag clouds
A lot of blogs, or other types of sites with a lot of content units use tag clouds, where trending words are shown, with more trending words being displayed bigger, and less popular words having a ...
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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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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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Identify different types of clickable shapes?
We're building an application that is like an interactive flow chart. When users are viewing the flow chart, they can interact with certain shapes:
Link to another flow chart.
Link to an external ...
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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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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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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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CMS - Advice on how to link to site?
We have a Content Management System (near enough).
The picture below is the Administration page, which is a flex based front end, viewed in a browser.
If you think of admin pages with most CMS, ...
