SimpleQuiz Part IX
The latest in the SimpleQuiz series is Part IX › Smart Linking. The subject is different ways of marking up links within a sentence. As Dan says, this is a usability thing as much as a semantic markup thing.
When I write stuff for the web I try hard to get my links right. It’s also something that I struggle to make colleagues and clients think a bit more about. Unfortunately, many people are stuck in the “Click here” way of linking.
Back to Dan’s Quiz. Like most of those who have posted comments at SimpleBits, I say option B is the best choice:
The W3C’s section on HTML has been used by many designers as a reference to build better sites.
The link highlights the relevant words, is scannable and just makes sense. Even better would be to use the title attribute to describe the link target:
The W3C’s section on HTML has been used by many designers as a reference to build better sites.
Option C, “Click here”, looks very amateurish, is completely meaningless when taken out of context, tells you nothing of where it will take you and will make me doubt the credibility of any site, no matter how good the rest of it is.
- Previous post: A List Apart relaunch
- Next post: Trackback ID?
Information, sponsorship, and externals
About the author
Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.
Latest articles
- Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider Comments off
- An analysis of the sites crawled by the bulk validation tool Nikita the Spider during March 2008.
- Authentic Jobs API and Affiliates program Comments off
- The Authentic Jobs job listing service now has a public API and an affiliate program.
- What does Acid3 mean to you and me? Comments off
- Opera and Apple have announced that their web browsers pass the Acid3 Browser Test, but how will that help web designers and developers?
- Designing Web Navigation (Book review) Comments off
- Learn the fundamentals of navigation design and design better navigation systems for large and small sites as well as for web based applications.
- DOMAssistant bundle for TextMate Comments off
- To save keystrokes and speed up development I have created a DOMAssistant bundle for TextMate.
- First impressions of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Comments off
- My impressions after trying out Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for a couple of days.
Sorry, comments are closed for this post.