Jonathan T. Sage wrote:
hear hear! take a look at google with a term like '3 click rule'. Use a splash screen, and you've limited yourself to delivering your
product in 2 clicks. that's a challange. Not to mention, if you use
something fancy like flash for the splash screen, 9 times out of 10,
I'm already done.
although your reasoning is sensible in this case, I'd nonetheless like
to point out that the '3 click rule' is one of those usability 'commandments'
which is all too often used as if it was cast in stone...but it's not. It
obviously depends on the specific site structure. Applying it indiscriminately
is a bad thing, and would result - in complex sites - with a limited, squashed
and sub-optimal site structure. Sometimes it does take 4, 5 or more clicks
to get to the right place. The important thing is that the journey needs to
be logical.
See for instance http://web.archive.org/web/20040316081516/http://www.uie.com/articles/three_click_rule/
(sending you to the web archive version, as the live site seems to have some
trouble getting their XSL to work properly).
Same goes for the "magic 7 +/- 2" rule http://www.clickz.com/experts/crm/traffic/article.php/3427631
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