Hi Paige, How similar to Wikipedia do you mean when you say "similar." The Wiki software is called Media Wiki and is free to use for any purpose, if you haven't looked at it, it might be a good fit.
To address your original question, if links are an integral part of the navigation like they are in a wiki then distinguishing between internal and external links is a great idea. The user needs to know whether they are navigating to a new page within your site or to something completely different. In this case your internal links are a form of direct site navigation, which isn't always the case. Media Wiki defines these link roles really well.. Matt. On 10/5/07, paige saez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > I am curious to hear peoples' thoughts on the value of distinguishing > between internal links and external links in a large-scale web app. > I am currently working on a project that is being loosely modeled off of > Wikipedia; which does make a visual distinction between their internal and > external links. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
