Metric Widgets by WidgetCorp

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Food for Thought

*Ethical Care and Feeding of Website Visitors

1. Don't fake SEO
2. Never auto-play audio on loading
3. Don't break the BACK button
4. Don't break bookmarks: forward Old to New Pages (META REFRESH), use persistent URLs, avoid Frames
5. Don't fake the window.status panel (deprecated)
6. Give them a hint when you're about to open in a new page/ tab
7. Don't spawn multiple pop-ups. Or pop-ups. Look at this.
8. Degrade Gracefully , Enhance Progressively
9. Tell them where they are; help them stay oriented within the web
(communicate current URL)
10. Give them hints about where they've been (color visited links)
11. Identify links clearly
12. Use only widely understood norms
home, top, external link, hamburger = menu, drama dots = more
13. Don't Make Them Think
14. read Design of Everyday Things, an essential primary design book
15. No "tag soup"

A long list of links

• the Economist
• Journal of Foreign Affairs
• Appalachian Journal