Questions tagged [hyperlinks]
Hyperlinks indicate that clicking on a piece of text or image will take you to related information.
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What are the differences between buttons and links?
What are the differences between buttons and links?
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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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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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Should hyperlinks be blue?
I've built a site where all hyperlinks have the default colors: blue for links, purple for visited links. They turn red on hover.
I believe that always using blue for hyperlinks is a good thing, so ...
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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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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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External links: Whether & how to distinguishing them from internal links, and to open them
How do other IAs/UXD's treat external links & what are the perceived pros/cons of different options. Specifically looking for recommendations on:
whether & how to visually distinguish ...
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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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Are "print" links needed on a website?
What do you think, does a website for a general audience need a "print" link or will the users know how to print the page for themselves (using the browser controls)?
Some background:
It's not a ...
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Menu with dropdown, root element clickable?
I have two options for a dropdown but I'm not sure which one is the best from an usability standpoint. In option (A) there is a explicit "Our services" link which goes to a page with general ...
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Why is it standard for a website logo to navigate to the home page?
Why has it become an industry standard for logos to redirect a user to a website's homepage?
Where was this first seen?
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Styling labels as links to "trick" users into hovering over it?
The title alone would probably result in a chanting "NO!" as the popular answer, but please let me elaborate.
Background
We have a table of items that represent something. Each item can hold one to ...
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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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What should the ALT text be for an image that is also a link?
An image alt="" text should contain information about that image in the context of the page, so for instance if you have an article about cats on skateboards and then a photograph of the cat on his ...
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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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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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When to open link in new tab?
There are links, buttons, images and much more that directs users to new pages.
In my opinion, it should always stay in the same tab unless it's a PDF or download item. But when is it acceptable to ...
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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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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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How do I indicate that a subset of icons aren't clickable?
I have a row of icons with labels. The first three are clickable and are in fact nav elements for the content area. The last icon isn't clickable... how do I make the lack of clicking affordance clear?...
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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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Best placement for a "Go Back" button: top or bottom?
I know that it is bad practice to use a "Go Back" button (since the browser has such a function) but when it can't be avoided for some reason, is it better to put it on top (similar to how the back ...
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How to change our design or content that users open our website when they see the content? [closed]
Maybe the title is not clear; Because the subject is a little special
We are well ranked website and our users are really important for us, and we really care about them. We even don't advertise on ...
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How to mark visited vs non visited links
What is the best combination of markings (colour, style etc.) for visited vs. non-visited links in a list that may contain many links and whose contents may have been visited in any number and any ...
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Do users trust shortened URLs?
I've got some problems with shortened URLs personally; they're really easy to create and not descriptive, so it's fairly easy to make them link to malware. I'm talking about links like http://bit.ly/...
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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 to ...
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Are tag/word clouds useful?
A lot of blogs or other types of sites with a lot of content use tag clouds, where trending words are shown and popular words are displayed larger. For example
Should you put a tag cloud on your site?...
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When (if ever) should links be opened in a new window?
I have seen a lot of discussion on this topic but it all seems to be opinion based without any research backing up the assumptions.
It seems that there are times that it is particularly relevant to ...
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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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Which anchor text variation provides the best experience? [duplicate]
Basically, my question is about where anchor tag links should be located.
In the specific sentence Click here to go to this site, what makes the most sense?
Click here to go to this site.
Click ...
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Use of Mouse-Over Paragraph Marker in Headlines for Permalink
I haven't really noticed this before, but it seems there's some fad where a headline on a web page would include a mouse over paragraph marker (¶) that links to a named anchor for the headline. If ...
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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 multi-...
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Should printed graphics of a domain start with www, uppercase/lowercase? How to make the user understand that it's a domain?
Consider a car used by a company which has "advertising" printed on it regarding the actual company.
How should domains be displayed on such a car? Is there any research regarding this? With a wide ...
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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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Should all links on a website be the same color?
I'm not a web designer and would like to know about link and button colors.
About links
Should all links be the same color, knowing that sometimes the background has different color so the links are ...
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What is the most familiar wording of linking to a PDF file?
For certain industries and user-bases, it can make sense to include a link to a PDF version of a HTML web page — so that visitors can either view or download it.
From a recognizability and ...
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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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Whether to use "Click Here" in Links for non techincal users
The hyper links containing the word "Click Here" is against the principles of Usability as the whole focus shifts towards the mouse and further it does not guide the users about the information of ...
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Should html links with images have both title and alt attributes?
I understand it is generally a best quality practice to have title tags for hyperlinks and alt tags for images. This is good for several reasons: additional information for low bandwidth users, ...
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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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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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Is it good to strike through visited links?
I've seen in some websites such as http://twomovies.name/watch_movie/Shutter_Island that visited links are striked.
Is this good practice?
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How to resolve lengthy hyperlinks?
When you’re editing content and have links to organizations or frameworks that has many words, the link might exceed an entire row or break a row. These lengthy links look ridiculous and could ...
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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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Should we tell users that a link or button will open in a new tab or window & how to do so?
I have encountered users (and myself) who feel that at times when clicking on links it can be surprising when things open in a new window or tab and they didn't expect that action.
I believe it would ...
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Should breadcrumbs contain non-navigation elements
I am working on an admin interface which uses a left menu as well as a breadcrumb at the top of the page.
I have items grouped into different levels in the menu as below:
In this menu, "...
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Visited links: expectations and accessibility
Back in the day, a vivid blue and a royal violet distinguished available and visited links on the majority of websites. Even simple pages often took many seconds to load, and the assumption was that ...
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How best to display truncated links?
I'm working on a Q&A platform, and I was wondering.
Within My Account you can check your questions, answers and comments such as
[Your answer]
Date: [XX-XX-XX] Number of answers:[XX]
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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, like ...
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How to best show links that are internal
I have created a wordpress site recently for my club. I have come recently to a discussion about the way I have shown the list of useful links internal to the site.
I have put them under the header "...
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