[thelist] Useability/design Opinion's sought

Stephen Rider evolt_org at striderweb.com
Wed Mar 23 11:11:20 CST 2005


On Mar 22, 2005, at 6:22 PM, e-head wrote:

> I do agree with the "essence" of what that article says.
>
>> Most of the time, a link inside an article is there to give more 
>> information or
>> back up an argument by linking to another source also talking in 
>> favour of
>> it. I started to favour an email-like style "as Bob the Sheepfarmer
>> says[1]" and have a list of links at the end of the article instead:
>>
>> [1] Bob the Sheep farmer talks about the crisis in the middle east:
>> http://www.baabaa.com/bob/

There are advantages to this (printing is a good example), but 
disadvantages as well.  This partially breaks the "back" button, is 
potentially confusing, and will mess with ratings in Google and such if 
the link text is nothing but the address itself.



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