francis
5th Feb 2004, 07:27 am
Interesting article on page design (http://www.digitalwebmag.com/columns/ianythinggoes/more_than_just_a_footer.shtml) in the latest Digital Web mag. As people become more Web savvy, the "users don't scroll" idea is losing ground, and longer pages are now more acceptable. Mini site maps are accpetable on each page as well as the increasingly more common "rate this article/info/thing" feedback area.
Amazon.com add massive footers onto their pages, and I can't decide whether I like them or not. Have a look at this random amazon.com link (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471353124/qid=1075965677//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-4758633-9062565?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) - if you take the bottom of the page as the end of the last review (it's what you've search on so probably can be defined as the page), there's a massive amount of extra, in some cases, utterly unrelated info including a "the bottom of the page" section.
Amazon.com add massive footers onto their pages, and I can't decide whether I like them or not. Have a look at this random amazon.com link (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471353124/qid=1075965677//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-4758633-9062565?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) - if you take the bottom of the page as the end of the last review (it's what you've search on so probably can be defined as the page), there's a massive amount of extra, in some cases, utterly unrelated info including a "the bottom of the page" section.