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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Oct 20, 2004 10:07AM

> I have a client that insists on "click here" in almost every link
> because as she puts it "you don't know how many people out there just
> don't realize something is a link unless it says so".

I'm all for making it easy for end-users, but 'click here' is something that
actually can hinder the usability of the site for a chunk of people, and,
really, learning how to click a link is *the* fundamental principal of HTML
and, as such, the web. Has anyone been in a user testing session where
someone had no concept of clicking on links? I think the 'click here' phenom
comes mainly from the client as they write content for the site offline as a
way to explicitely show what text should be linked.

As for a dynamic site, if you can pull up the name of the article, then you
can surely create a dynamic 'more info on [insert title]' link as well.
Granted, if the actual code is out of your hands (as in a purchased CMS)
then you may be out of luck, as I don't see too many CMS products concerned
with things like this these days.

And I say all of this having a site that currently uses a lot of 'more
info...' links. Yes, it's on my to-do list. ;o)

-Darrel