[quote name='Shalott' post='270546' date='Nov 13 2009, 03:11 AM']I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU SHOULD *EVER* HAVE TO CLICK "BACK" TO NAVIGATE A SITE. I will absolutely not visit any site that cannot easily navigate from one page to any other page of my choosing. The "back forward home" links don't count as navigation - I don't really want to have to return to your index page every time I need to access the menu.
Mean? Maybe. Really, though - why go out of your way to make it hard for visitors to spend time on your site?
*wheezes* MAJOR, MAJOR PEEVE. /rant[/quote]
[quote name='Katze' post='270561' date='Nov 13 2009, 09:25 AM']Yesssssssssss. *SEETHES* Especially since FORWARD DOESN'T HELP UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO FORWARD *TO*, BECAUSE YOU'VE ALREADY CLICKED BACK (and thus you'll probably end up on the page you just left :|)
Really. Guys. There's nothing wrong with having an extra little bit of navigation on pages. If it's an aesthetic thing, make the links pretty. Or. IDK. SOMETHING.
...Sorry guys, I mean no offense; it just bothers me to no end DDDDDX It doesn't bother me as much if it's a list of articles or something to that effect, because yeah, it would just look bizarre to have your list of 20 articles linked on every single article page, but general fl business (join/codes/fans/whatever), quicklinks on the pages is the way to go. It sucks because there are so many otherwise awesome sites that are ruined for me because of it XD;[/quote]
[quote name='Sarah' post='270564' date='Nov 13 2009, 09:58 AM']LOL, this is actually really interesting, cause I think half of my sites fall under that. *ponders* I would have never thought someone would be bothered by clicking "Fanlisting" once more to go back to the rest of the fanlisting pages aka join, members etc - I've never had a problem with it myself, so I just assumed neither did anyone else, aha. I can understand about being annoyed when one constantly has to go back to the index (maybe even without a link back there- that really drives me nuts sometimes >>; ) but yeah.. I guess I'm just not really picky with navigations, as long as it's clearly visible and I can find what I'm looking for. :rofl: I don't really mind 1,2 "extra" clicks, haha.
*shall try and take this into consideration for the next fl* :sweatdrop:[/quote]
OK, I admit it, the "BACK", "FORWARD", "HOME" links do annoy me, and even if I did do that for my collective, I ran out of icon ideas, and three icons looked stupid. Just sayin'. I think I also fall under the category of having this type of navigation, though out of my four fanlistings, only one uses the "About", "Fanlisting", "Site", etc., and like Sarah, it doesn't bother me to click that consistently. That, and most of the time I have a sub-navigation if the fanlisting is split into sections, so the visitor can access important pages easily.
WHAT DOES BOTHER ME is having to turn on JavaScript on a particular site to activate navigation images, and sometimes I can't even find them/the links are dead for whatever reason; I do like being able to access any navigation easily without getting confused, so I do understand the irritation. That, and when there is no "home" link, because sometimes I'm too lazy to try and take out, say, "join.php" out of the address bar. ...Yeah, most of that's from laziness.