[thelist] Iconography - Common Elements

[Edwin Horneij]

I suggest using a text link. If there is no obvious icon, almost by 
definition whatever icon you do settle on will be difficult to 
interpret. There is also the concern that the user who would benefit 
from the link has already arrived at a page in an unfamiliar language. 
Why give him or her something else puzzling?

On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Michele Foster wrote:

> Hi ya'll,
>
> We're thinking to add some icons to our web site .. and when one rolls 
> over
> them, the text will also be visible.  We're stuck on one, and I 
> thought I'd
> ask if anyone has any good advice or favourite icons that resemble it.
> These are for important, yet not main sections of our site, the desire 
> being
> to not introduce yet another menuing system, but to still keep these
> elements on each page of the site.
>
> House - HomePage
> Question Mark or Magnify Glass - Search
> Map - Site Map (maybe a bulleted list would be better, havn't thought 
> this
> one through)
> Dollar Sign (Piggy Bank?) - Donations
> Email (Letters) - possibly, not sure we want/need  this one
>
> The tough one ..
>
> French (and alternatively English on the French site)
>
> This is a Canadian site so anything that relates specifically to
> France/Britain would be completely unacceptable :)
>
> One suggestion was a book (or a couple of books) .. but I don't think 
> that
> really does it.
>
> TIA,
>
> Mich
>
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