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05 May 09

Breadcrumb Navigation: An Exploratory Study of Usage

A study conducted in 2003 about how breadcrumbs are used

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  • We found the overall usage of the breadcrumb in site navigation to be low. Breadcrumb users were not found to be more efficient than users who did not use the breadcrumb. Participants used a variety of navigational means, such as the Back button, left and top navigation bars, and searching to find the information instead of or in addition to the breadcrumb tool.
    • And the survey says... - on 2009-05-05
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Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices | Smashing Magazine

Why do we use breadcrumbs? Why do we need breadcrumbs? Why do we call them breadcrumbs? Why, why, why???!!!

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  • Breadcrumb navigation should be regarded as an extra feature and shouldn’t replace effective primary navigation menus.

Tutorial 27: The Care and Feeding of Hyperlinks, Part III - HTML with Style - Webreference.com

Part of a longer article. Explains the idea of breadcrumbs and why we use them. :)

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    • Well well! A perfect example right before our eyes.

      My only question is, are they Panko? Italian-style?
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  • Breadcrumbs are a series of links, the first one
    pointing to your home page and the rest pointing to the pages upwards
    of the current one in the site hierarchy, all the way down to the
    current page.
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18 Apr 09

Typetester - Compare fonts for the screen

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of fonts for the screen. It's like csstypeset only this allows comparison of more than one typestyle at once! :)

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Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS.

Helpful to see web-safe fonts at a glance, also good for knowing which fonts are considered websafe for which systems.

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13 Apr 09

OK/Cancel

Comic about info design, but especially about the perils of the interaction between those on the "design" side of things and those on the "information" side of things ;)

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User Interface Engineering - UIE

Why Consistency is Critical - Sitepoint

Article by Gerry Gaffney (who owns the Australian site I just bookmarked... I guess he does usability testing for a living), about consistency in web design, and it has a few points I wouldn't have considered (like using consistency in the language used throughout the text).

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    • Not something I would have thought of... - on 2009-04-13
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Usability resources | Information & Design

Australian site with some articles about usability testing and other Information Design related topics

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    • This is an interesting article that questions the attitude most designers (and even most users) have about whose fault it is when technology doesn't work... - on 2009-04-13
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25 Aug 08

Mandarin Design: CSS Opacity and Transparency

Opacity and Transparency served copy and paste style. Blog tips, Web site tips, tricks, and help. Located in Sacramento, California

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17 Aug 08

Web Design References

A ridiculously huge amount of links categorized by sections and subsections make this well-organized link list an invaluable resource for anything web-related. Link directories include Accessibility, Associations, Books, CSS, Color, DW, Eval/testing, Even

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CSS3 . Info - All you ever needed to know about CSS3

Anything related to the latest implementation of CSS... What's new with this recommendation, what are the browsers doing to support it?

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80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding ~ Smashing Magazine

Like the 53 CSS Techniques article, presents a categorized list of different toolkits and scripts for specific purposes. Very informative. Now if only they would give us some dang anchors on these things...

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Top Ten Web Typography Sins ~ Smashing Magazine

By Steven D. While many designers have been quick to embrace web standards, it's surprising how often the basic standards of typography are neglected.

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13 Aug 08

SitePoint : New Articles, Fresh Thinking for Web Developers and Designers

SitePoint.com - I had this one bookmarked back when it was webmaster-resources.com! Lots of very informative articles about all aspects of webdev business.

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I Love Typography

Web site devoted to typography, type, fonts and typefaces. Lots of articles and helpful tools on this one. Features real-world examples of beautiful type, font spotlights, tutorials, and The Font Game (see how big a typography nerd you are!)

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Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library

A great classic site that's been around since DHTML was ajax and the web didn't have a version number. Now it's become a great repository of tutorials and scripts for ajax and CSS.

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