To link, or not to link, that is the question.
Hyperlinks are one of the most important elements of a website. They help you move from page to page and from site to site.
Hardly a revelation – I know, however earlier this evening I was looking over a list of sites that had been nominated for an award. The list was not printed out, but was on a website (novel concept this internet thing), so I would have thought that providing links to the nominated sites would have been a natural part of it all.
Well, I was mistaken. In their wiseness the organisers (or their webmaster) neglected to provide a single hyperlink, so there is a “lovely” list of addresses:
www.somedomain.ie
instead of:
http://www.somedomain.ie
How much effort would it have taken to provide links that us mere mortals could click on??
Is it too much to ask?
Or maybe I’ve missed something blatantly obvious, so obvious that I must be staring it in the face…..
That is incredibly stupid. I mean, who hires web designers who can’t do links?
I was looking at the same website and it is really annoying. It is so easy to add a link and have it open in a new window.
Anthony – No idea. I’d have thought that linking would have been the only logical thing to do.
I know that I consciously do not link at times, but that’s for a very different reason.
John Paul – well I have seen “designers” charging per hyperlink 🙂
I guarantee you that given who we’re talking about that that sort of things costs extra. Lots of big extravagant pockets to line you know.