An interesting thread at Cre8asiteforums, titled “When lots of your visitors go straight to search? discusses a member’s curiosity about navigation patterns after noticing that a significant percentage of his visitors — 25% — go directly to search after arriving at his site. It’s an interesting element of site navigation to investigate, and the thread raises a pretty significant number of additional questions worth analyzing. The navigation path of any given user will be fundamentally unique. However, when taken in […]
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On the usability of contextual URLs
Example: Visit this site! http://www.joedolson.com/ I run into this, or into something like it all the time, and it’s pretty understandable why. Obviously, if you don’t know how to create a hyperlink, or if you’re working with a CMS (Content Management System) which will automatically convert a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) into a hyperlink, this is the most reliable way to provide access to somebody else’s site. Either they have the URL, and can use it “straight up” if they […]
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