So I have seen a bunch of redesigns come up recently like
http://www.uxbooth.com/ (which I love that site) and I wanted to
bring this up as something simple that just sort of caught me as
being rather strange. Maybe I am missing the boat or just not seeing
something but I have been working in web design for a little over 10
years now and I have learned that when you have a link that is
internal you have that link open within the same window. On the other
hand, I was taught that any link that you have that is a reference to
an external website you should have the link open in an external
window or tab if the user has that set up. This allows for the user
to not actually leave your site and allows for your site to remain
open in the background. It is a simple target="_blank" property in
the anchor tag that accomplishes this.
In my past experience I would hear the term from marketing people
"stickiness" and this would be something that would apply to that.
Now I don't mean to call sites out but I really see this happening
quite a bit to high profile sites now where they are not paying
attention to this "rule" anymore including this site we are on
right now.
Like I said earlier, did I miss something?
Brian Durkin
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