Have visited links disappeared?

Posted on January 9, 2009
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Lately I have been doing some usability testing and reviewing a large amount of other sites and one of the things that I noticed was that the visited links has but disappeared.

I am not sure why maybe designers don’t think it’s important. Maybe they just forgot. The truth is visted links is not just important for usability. It’s important for accessibility as well.

Let’s review some of the more visited sites and see what they have.

AndrewGill.com - I pulled this on out of my Google reader

Andrew Gill

In the Andrew Gill screen capture I have actually visited that blog post. So ideally the title would be a different shade than the other links. In  this case - its not. Shame on you Andrew Gill.

Apple

Even Apple isn’t using visited links. Maybe because they are too into style and looks ????

Techvibes

Techvibes  - I really had high hopes for Techvibes. I thought for sure they would be using a different style for visited links.

Websites that are styling their visited links:

Globe and Mail Newspaper

As you can see the link has changed on this photo to a different shade, it’s not as noticeable but when you are looking for a article which you have already looked at - it sticks out. With a website that is as content heavy as a newspaper website - highlighting the visited links in almost a no brianer when it comes to design but yet so many designers are not doing it. Globe and Mail - you get a gold star!

Alexa

Alexa is also ahead of the crowd, showing visitors where they have been.

If you know of any other websites, let me know. I would love to check them out as well….

BSWD has moved.

Posted on January 5, 2009
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As part of our New Year’s resolution, to clean up all our websites, we have moved the BSWD site over to www.aliciaharper.com. We will still be operating the same, just over her at www.aliciaharper.com

Thanks for your patience and continued support.

If you have any questions, about your current support - please email me at alicia@aliciaharper.com

Twitteriffic twitter resources

Posted on December 29, 2008
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Today I decided to finally go check my google reader which I have been neglecting over the holidays. And most of the content that came up was twitter content and some really great stuff.

Perry Belcher @ http://perrybelcher.com/ - Twitter videos

Perry had a couple of really good videos on Youtube. In the videohe talks about how twitter is like going to party and uses some great analogies to go with that. Be sure to check out the videos and two reat resources he turned me on to:

The above links are aggrated content of the top stories ont he web, at that given time. Excellent resource for grabbing the latest content and not getting left out in the dark. Now, you’ll always have something to talk about.
And here are the videos:

How to get 5000 friends in 90 days (video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuEXFzUpkA8

Are you a twitter snob? (video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zqI0baKB-U&feature=related

Erin Peterson http://blog.webanalyticsdemystified.com/

Erin wrote an excellent post on Measuring success in Twitter: Influence vs. Participation and in it I found some great links to other twitter resources.

And ten there is the usual suspects:

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