Hi all,
I know it's not really specific to Free Software. However, I am sure this could be interesting to anyone reading this list and to all folks publishing articles or blog posts on fsfe.org web sites.
This is a short article on what makes a good hyperlink:
Writing Hyperlinks: Salient, Descriptive, Start with Keyword http://www.nngroup.com/articles/writing-links/
Summary: To help users quickly find what they need, anchor text should stand out from the body content and accurately describe the page that it refers to.
Best,
Hello,
Am 25.03.2014 15:15, schrieb Hugo Roy:
[...] I am sure this could be interesting to anyone reading this list and to all folks publishing articles or blog posts on fsfe.org web sites.
The passage that most amuses me is the second conclusion:
"Second, don’t force users to read the text surrounding a link to determine where it leads. This is both time consuming and frustrating."
In other words: "Don't write anything, they won't read it anyway - just link to some other place to keep them busy."
Not really my kind of experience nor liking.
Cheers,
Rob
El 25/03/14 22:07, Robert Kehl escribió:
Hello,
Am 25.03.2014 15:15, schrieb Hugo Roy:
[...] I am sure this could be interesting to anyone reading this list and to all folks publishing articles or blog posts on fsfe.org web sites.
The passage that most amuses me is the second conclusion:
"Second, don’t force users to read the text surrounding a link to determine where it leads. This is both time consuming and frustrating."
In other words: "Don't write anything, they won't read it anyway - just link to some other place to keep them busy."
Well, I think the article is not so ambitious. I think it just says that between these two possible sentences with links:
A) Alice wrote <a href="blogpost.html">a blog post</a> about her experience deploying free software web services.
B) Alice wrote <a href="blogpost.html">a blog post about her experience deploying free software web services</a>.
option B seems to be better than A, because our eyes inconsciously jump to the blue underlined text before reading the rest (the same with ads, graphics, and so).
Regards
Laura Arjona
Not really my kind of experience nor liking.
Cheers,
Rob _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
2014-03-25 16:15 GMT+02:00 Hugo Roy hugo@fsfe.org:
I know it's not really specific to Free Software. However, I am sure this could be interesting to anyone reading this list and to all folks publishing articles or blog posts on fsfe.org web sites.
This is a short article on what makes a good hyperlink:
Writing Hyperlinks: Salient, Descriptive, Start with Keyword <http://www.nngroup.com/articles/writing-links/> Summary: To help users quickly find what they need, anchor text should stand out from the body content and accurately describe the page that it refers to.
I've been reading the Alertbox newsletter by Jacob Nielsen of this very same company for maybe 10 years now, and all the advice I've read there has been very good and evidence based. I warmly recommend. In particular if you don't agree with what the recommendations are, you should really push yourself to become enlightened :)
Hi Hugo,
* Hugo Roy hugo@fsfe.org [2014-03-25 15:15:46 +0100]:
This is a short article on what makes a good hyperlink:
Writing Hyperlinks: Salient, Descriptive, Start with Keyword <http://www.nngroup.com/articles/writing-links/> Summary: To help users quickly find what they need, anchor text should stand out from the body content and accurately describe the page that it refers to.
Thank you for the interesting article. Maybe you also want to share it with web@?
Regards, Matthias