[Sigia-l] Link-stuffed home pages

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 18:03 +0000, Jonathan Baker-Bates wrote:
> I've just counted 341 links on this home page. 
> 
> http://www.his-j.com/index.html
> 
> More is clearly more in this case. Can anyone beat that?
> 

Interestingly, NYT.com has 324. 

It now occurs to me that what initially started out as a pointless
exercise in link-counting might actually have a use. This page has
(only) 235 links on it:

http://webtorque.org/wp-content/uploads/235_links.png

And it sucks. Badly.*

So, if I can find a *well-designed* page of similar type and link-count,
I could use it as a compare-and-contrast example in one of my legendary
Boring Presentations when attempting to explain what IA is.

Or (and this is scary), I could try to re-design the above page to make
it better while keeping the link count intact. 

Better still, and far less risk for my ego, I could set this as a test
for potential IA candidates in job interviews!

Oh! The joys of thinking out loud!

Happy new year everyone by the way.

Jonathan

* Although these days most IA bets are off due to SEO (damn you
Google!), but let's leave that to one side for now.