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RE: Hypertext links -- how best to make these useful
Subject:RE: Hypertext links -- how best to make these useful From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:Fiona Hanington <fiona -dot- hanington -at- ericsson -dot- com>, Lee Fisher <blibbet -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:26:34 -0400
"After you <link>defragment the disk (click here for instructions)</link>, ...."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fiona Hanington
> Sent: October-25-12 7:02 PM
> To: Lee Fisher
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Hypertext links -- how best to make these useful
>
> These are interesting, but not really what I'm after.
>
> I'm not explaining this well... An example may help:
>
> Imagine you have this sentence:
>
> "After you <link>defragment the disk</link>, ...."
>
>
> It's not clear what you will get when you click:
> - instructions on how?
> - definition of?
> - example?
>
> ... And I think such ambiguity makes readers less likely to click away
> from the current page.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has any resources on consistent wording for
> links leading to these different categories of info: reference,
> example, concepts, procedure.
>
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