[Sigia-l] seeking rules

[Heller, David]

Oh this one reminded me of another.

"It is best to be able to navigate to anywhere from anywhere."

-- dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Hjortshoj [mailto:anne at optical.mindstorm.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:18 PM
To: Heller, David
Cc: 'Christina Wodtke'; 'sigia-l at asis.org'
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] seeking rules




Here's one: it's always more efficient to have everything on one page.

"Everything" can equal:

-Search
-Text
-Steps in a workflow
-Forms

etc.

I've spent some time lately gently persuading clients and developers that
this isn't the case.

-Anne

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Heller, David wrote:

> Christina here are a few of mine:
> 1. Local Navigation should be on the left; Global Navigation should be 
> on the top 2. Links should be blue & underlined
> 3. Animated gifs are bad
> 4. Flash is bad
> 5. Nested tables are bad
> 6. Users won't wait for pages to download
> 7. Users won't horizontally scroll
> 8. Users max out their windows
> 9. Users use web sites differently from GUI applications
> 10. Keep it Simple
> 
> Ok, that's all I can come up w/. Ziya is right w/ the Jakob site ... 
> He's the man w/ the real list.
> 
> --dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christina Wodtke [mailto:cwodtke at eleganthack.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:49 AM
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] seeking rules
> 
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm seeking "rules of web design" that are absolute and erroneous in 
> their over-simplicity. Such as "users don't read" "users don't scroll" 
> "Have only seven links on a page" and so on.
> 
> Anyone have any of these (anecdotes not necessary, but always welcome 
> for entertainment value)
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
> christina wodtke
> http://www.boxesandarrows.com
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