Category Archives: navigation

Longest URL ever?

By admin | August 10, 2008

Is this really necessary?
http://www.realtytrac.com/MapSearch/MapSearch/MapSearch.aspx?
zipcode=70471&zipOnly=true&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0&Submit=Submi
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“but links in new windows keep users on your site”

By admin | August 31, 2007

Much to my dismay, it seems that some people still believe that opening external links in new windows “keeps users on your site.”
We have a part-timer who just spent her internship with us and now that school is back in session she is taking a web class and was asking some questions some of us [...]

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Screen Jumping at Treehugger.com

By admin | July 17, 2007

While reading a rather intriguing article on how ethanol is increasing the price of popcorn and ice cream, I noticed something interesting on the site (treehugger.com) . On the far right side of the page are a series of vertical tabs that allow the user to jump sections of the article by screen height. [...]

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