Friday, March 28, 2008

Usability issues pertaining to link styling

In the last week link styling has been brought up as a usability issue, which it is. I always try to style my links LVHA or Love Hate awful acronym but easy to remember.

In the discussions and links provided its clear that most sites should try to use breadcrumbs, (where you are now) which I like and will be endeavouring to use and that older web site users in particular need more defined visual clues to help in knowing where they've been.

As an aside with regard to breadcrumbs, I often find that Blackboard and WebCT breadcrumbs stuff up. Blackboard often doesn't give the whole link/breadcrumb & WebCT jumbles them up as below.

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