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Link Your Logo to Your Homepage

Please please please link your web site's logo to your homepage. This is a design convention that should really be mandatory by now.

What does this mean?

1. Go to your web site.

2. Click to a page other than your homepage.

3. Now click on your site's logo.

Did it take you to your homepage? If not, that's the problem.

Why does this matter? Because people expect your logo to link to your homepage. Not doing so goes against accepted web design conventions.

Don't force your visitors to learn how to use your site. Intuitive navigation lets visitors focus on your site's great content. Clicking logos that should be hyperlinked but are not causes undue frustration.

By the way, one page on every site should not have a link to the homepage? Which page? The homepage.

Listen to this article posted by Ed Kohler on March 21, 2006 9:53 PM | Permalink
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