Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 10/31/07 19:08

Scripsit Bernhard Sturm:

> We are currently testing a site: http://wwwt.ichschweiz.admin.ch/
> which has a 'top of page' navigation at the bottom of each page
> (pointing to an anchor at the top of the html-structure).

Just remove those links. They are worse than useless. Every browser has a
simple command to get to the start of a page on _any_ page. Duplicating that
on a site-specific way just adds noise and pseudocontent and sometimes
confuses people. The main page is so short that the link looks particularly
pointless there. More arguments:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/totop.html

P.S. Do you use browser-sniffing? That's a problem, too. I get different
results (e.g. in date formats) when accessing the page on IE and on Lynx.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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