Comments on: Analyzing Home

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:38:09 +0000

Yes, thanks for mentioning that. Any one who claims to have a solution you can apply to all web sites is full of it. You definitely have to check with your users to see how they’ll react.

Some users may need the “Home” link.

Thanks for bringing that up

By: Tom Hermans

Tom Hermans — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:29:40 +0000

interesting article, and although I agree with almost everything, I have to mention an experience I recently had a few times. I build and admin +/-30 company sites and a good few of my clients/colleagues , and some site-visitors had complaints. Why ? Because they didn’t know the logo was the link to the homepage. “There is no home button”…

Do not over-estimate ‘normal’ visitors. They are confused without a home button, can’t get over a captcha-hurdle, do not register for some modules cause of the hassle etc..

These people need a home button..

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:22 +0000

I almost never use the home link instead opting to click the logo and if that fails to work then I use the go up extension on FF.

By: Joe Devon

Joe Devon — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:46:19 +0000

I agree with you 100%. I don’t even look for a logo or the home button when I want the home page. I use the “up” folder on my Google Toolbar because I always know it’s there.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:32:24 +0000

I was just on a project where the client requested no home page. At first I didn’t know how to react to that, but it got me thinking.

We ended up using a home page. Definitely an interesting concept though.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:31:48 +0000

Either the “home” link needs to die, or the homepage it self needs to offer something valuable that makes it worth returning to.