A Frightening Experience
Here at Copy Text we like to take great pride in the simple navigation we build into clients’ sites. The navigation is where users expect to see it, the links are obvious and the words that appear in the link leave little room for any misunderstanding about where they will lead to. It’s a simple matter of click and you’ll be there.
But yesterday I had a most frightening experiene. Toni and I were in the office of a client and he was trying to navigate his way to a new page we had added to his website. Instead of using the simple navigation we had built into the site he fiddled about and clicked in his browser’s address bar, wandered up to the tool bar and did something there and generally mucked around trying to get to that new page.
As we left I asked Toni if she had understood what on earth he was doing.
“No” she said shaking her head. “I have no idea what he was doing but somehow he ended up with what looked like his site embedded in what might have been a frame that seemed to include his Gmail inbox.”
And that’s exactly what it looked like.
I have no idea how he did it and I’m not sure I want to know either but I certainly hope no one else navigates their way around the Web the way he does because if they do then we web designers are all doomed!