A type of secondary navigation, “breadcrumbs” (or “breadcrumb trails”) are a user friendly way of showing where the user is within a site. Breadcrumbs are normally found within sites that have more than 2 levels of navigational links. You’ll also see them in applications that have more than one step (”signposting”), for example on a checkout or booking system where a progress bar is needed.
If you use Twitter you’ll have started to notice the emergence of the use of #hastags along the way. Many of us might have thought that someone accidentally typed something in on their tweet by hitting the # symbol, but really they are simply making it easier to use Twitter. The hashtag is basically a tool used to sort through and link conversations on Twitter.
Here’s some tips to help users find the content they are looking for. These tips show how to make headers more effective and easier to identify and apply to both page headers and content sub-headers. Although they aren’t the gospel they will definitely help and are things to consider when designing a site.
Friday Freebies this week come with a summer inspired theme. Having used these wallpapers for both our desktop and iPhone wallpapers this week we had to shamelessly promote ourselves again by offering these for our readers. As always we like to listen so if you have any further suggestions for some Friday Freebies please don’t hesitate to share them with us by emailing the team. Enjoy and let’s hope this summer is a hot one.
Until recently we have probably classed ourselves as casual Google Analytics users who use the tool to get a bit of an ego boost on the number of visits to the site each day. Like most casual users we never really took any notice of the Goals feature the tool offers, when really we and others should, it gives you a lot of great insight to your site.
