The simplest is the admonishment that you should not mislead or lie to the user -- in the navigation - if you have links to pages - that go to Under Construction or Coming soon - you are misleading the user - implying that they will go somewhere to get useful information - when the links go to a holding page. That erodes trust. Every link is an opportunity to build or destroy trust. Just like using misleading link labels.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Andrew Jaswa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a client that wants to put several "coming soon" pages on their > site. As in a link that points to a page called "About us" but the > only thing on that page is the text "Coming Soon". Essentially links > to empty pages. > > My initial gut feeling is that this looks un-professional (thinking > back to the "this page under construction" days). It also could > present some SEO issues, but I'm not too worried about those at this > point. From a interaction perspective what would be a good argument > for or against having these kinds of pages? > > Any links to research would also be helpful. > > Thanks, > Andrew Jaswa > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | CrowdSprout tel +1.617.281.1281 | fax +1.617.507.6016 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
