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Optimize your pathway pages

May 22nd, 2009

Pee-wees Big Adventure ipod Optimize your pathway pagesPathway pages are pages on your site that provides links and information about a collection of individual items (be they articles, products, pictures, etc). Pathway pages usually represent a category or group of items. For example, clicking Patio Furniture on a furniture website’s navigation will bring you to a pathway page that shows all the various types of patio furniture available. From this collection, a user will choose one to explore.

It’s important to recognize the purpose of a pathway page: to help the user find what they’re looking for. As such, pathway pages act more as a supplementary navigation more than a content page.

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When we’re on a pathway page, we’re still on the journey to the content we need. We don’t want to read, we just want to find the link and move on.

The lesson here is to optimize your pathway pages by:

  1. Making it stupid simple to find specific items by laying them out in an intuitive and friendly manner;
  2. Making it easy to navigate to specific items by linking headings, thumbnails and Read More text; and
  3. Decluttering the page by removing all unnecessary content.

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When to use text links and buttons

March 27th, 2009

When to use text links and buttonsText links are typically used to navigate between pages, sections or views, while buttons are used to perform an action whereby data is passed, processed, altered or stored.

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Make links distinct

January 27th, 2009

Make links distinctMake links clearly different from regular text so not to confuse the user by creating unclickable links

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  • Underlining links
  • Making links change colour when hovered over
  • Making links a unique colour not used by any other text

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Show only what's relevant

January 25th, 2009

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showonlywhatsrelevantDe-clutter your interface by showing only what’s relevant, and hiding what’s not. Use :hover pseudo classes in your css stylesheet to reveal additional options when a user’s cursor is hovering over a relevant area, but hide with display: none otherwise.

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Source: De-clutter Your Interface With Hover Controls (Usability Post)

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Arrows before or after links?

January 25th, 2009

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Arrows before or after links?A quick discussion on the implications of putting an arrow before a link versus after a link.

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Somewhere in Time full movie Sometimes we’d like to use an arrow character or icon together with the link text to make it look nicer and attract users’ attention. … Now, the question is, should these arrows go before the link text, or after?

Source: Should Arrows be Placed Before Link Text or After? (Usability Post)