[thelist] UI: i find myself saying "click here" a lot.

[Mark Gallagher]

Chris W. Parker wrote:
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 > is there any other way i can word these sentences so that the person
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There's a school of thought that most links (at least, links you want
clicked) should act as a call to action in some way.  I'm not sure I
agree, but to each their own.  Avoid "click here" and suchlike as often
as possible[0] - it's not that hard to go for the call to action thingy
without using "click here" or a derivitive.

 > normal?

Yes, sadly.


[0] I mean, not everyone clicks.  Consider, if you will, an Interwet
     Exploiter user who comes across a "call to action" aimed at Lynx
     users only: "hit the right arrow here".  That's the equivalent to
     what we Lynxers face every time someone says "click here" :-).

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