Links & Buttons
Links & Buttons
Highlighting links, Rollovers, What will happen?
Links (Banks, E-commerce, magazines, yahoo, Google)
Highlighted
Different color (shadow will appear when you go there)
Smaller font
Underline
Mouse over
Image
Home Link -Always if you are searching on the website on different links you need to be able to turn at home page
It is preferred to make a home page link with to place a logo or use just write home.
Outgoing Links-Websites contain external links- when you go to other sites (which will open a new window) Internal when the content is in the same site
It is good to make a group of external links in one side of the page or just write a note before that is external link.
Send -a- friend-link (it can be on frame, underline)
To the top link (make sure the position where you want to put this link on page: at the top-right or bottom-right)
Image links
Buttons
It is preferred to use 3d box with different color or just a simple box filled with different color, with particular verb ( submit, go, add, by)
Placement it is recommended for list builder-above on the right of the item itself and at forms right at the bottom. But, again you can change it according to your structure & information.
Underline, highlighted & image 4 (U2, hyperisland, Google, alb-net)
Mouse over & image 20 (BBC, MSN, yahoo, Swedeuk, zeldman,amazon, gap,esprit, Barclays bank, intermedia,BritishVogue, Virgin, firstgov.gov,albanur.net, indexkosova, IREX,IIMP, tv21,RTK)
Image, underline & mouse over 9 (Raiffeisen Bank, Magazines, Geography.About, New York Times, MedicineNet, hertz-CarRent, MTV,)
RTK I couldn’t define it – I was confused with titles that looked like link and reality they’re not, I had difficulties defining what is link and what title is.
Webpage- if the page has lot of information I will recommend to not use underlines –esthetic reason, but, if the page is not that loaded with information its not bad to use underline
Reference: www.welie.com
