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From: Cheyrl D. Wise
Date: Oct 20, 2004 1:22PM


I agree but the client is dead set on it. This isn't a dynamic site and
usually leads to a price sheet or a larger image as in "click here for a
larger image"


Cheryl D. Wise
Certified Professional Web Developer
MS-MVP-FrontPage
www.wiserways.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: darrel.austin


> 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.