Interactive Buttons?

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Susan

Okay, I am ready to try to dump the buttons based upon Navigation and get
rid of the "UP" buttons. That does not look professional. But the one thing
about the buttons based upon navigation that Jakob Nielsen would like is
that the button for the current page does not show up so you are not allowed
to be an idiot and hit the button for the page you are already viewing.

If I did interactive buttons, I would have to code each page individually.
For simple websites that is not too bad but not practical for large
websites. But is that the only way to get rid of the "UP"? You are then
locked in to manually updating when changes need to be made. Right?

Please offer suggestions or straighten me out if I am missing something.

Susan
 
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Teri Carnright

Hi, Susan~

I wouldn't "dump the buttons based upon Navigation" at all - but I would
DEFINITELY get rid of the back/up/next/whatever buttons you may have. If you
are using only one nav bar per page on multiple pages, and have "up" as a
choice to return to the main menu, my recommendation is to insert a second
nav bar with the "child pages under home" on it.

Teri
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Thomas A. Rowe

Sometime is good to click link for the page you are on, as it will refresh the page, plus user
really do expect that a link will work no matter what page they are on. In some case I change the
cell color behind the link for the page the user is on, but I leave the link active.

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Susan

How do you control that?
Thomas A. Rowe said:
Sometime is good to click link for the page you are on, as it will refresh
the page, plus user really do expect that a link will work no matter what
page they are on. In some case I change the cell color behind the link for
the page the user is on, but I leave the link active.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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Thomas A. Rowe

Susan,

If you asking about the cell color change, I do this with ASP/VBScript.

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