Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 05/27/07 23:08

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> writing in
news:bUf6i.170237$Ze7.21961@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi:

>> This is a question about what links to include on what pages?
>
> You might take casual advice from a noisy newsgroup, or you might take
> advice from usability specialists such as Jakob Nielsen (
> http://www.useit.com ) who says "less is more".
>
> You might even take advice from me. Put links to major sections onto
> the main page. Put links to subpages on the section pages. And link to
> the main page from every page, and to a section page from every
> subpage. That's the minimum.
>

I agree, and for subpages of subpages, I include a breadcrumb trial, eg:.
<li>Home</li><li>Products</li><li>Category</li><li>This product</li>.
Since I do most stuff server side, that's pretty easy to produce, and a
sitemap is also easy to produce.

In regards to sitemaps, I have seen a few where the link to the sitemap
was an XML document, not a human readable sitemap. Just as one should
have a human readable privacy statement, the sitemap should also be human
readable.

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