WordPress blogtxt theme patch

I’m reading a lot about UI design, and one of design rules to web navigation is “no link to current page” – for example http://www.alistapart.com/articles/whereami

I’m pretty sure also somewhere on Jakob Nielsen’s useit it is also given, but I can not find right now. This mean no link on page should point back to the same page. Rails have very nice helper for this link_to_unless_current. Well, not every one are so lucky. This blog is running on WordPress since it is good tool. In WordPress is nice function is_home. This allows to achieve similar effect like link_to_unless_current.

I admit that until now on my blog this cardinal rule was violated – on home page NetManiac header was link pointing to home page… Well not now. I wrote a little patch to blogtxt theme I’m using to change this. It can be fetched on http://nhw.pl/download/blogtxt.patch I’ve also did changes to CSS… Well Blogtxt theme looks nice, but now I realized that it violates a lot of design rules, like changing colors of visited links. Well no more, at least not here.

Well, a did a little search and I found it! The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines. Go and check rule #10. And not only that one. If You have any web page, You will benefit from reading useit.com, regardless You have Your company web page, or small private blog. Making web page more accessible can make You only much successful. Go, read and use it!

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