Friday, January 4, 2008

Are you a BackButtoner?

Surfing through so many different pages or myriad websites, I have come to a simple conclusion that no matter where you are in a website you still do not need to use the back button to go back to the earlier pages you were. Let me make myself clear here: by "websites", I mean the ones which are created keepin in close compliance with the reasonable software engineering practices. Every page of a site on the web which complies the standard protocols of navigation allows a user to be able to navigate back and forth without using the back button. I have used the back button myself at many many instances but just the other day I realized that I really should quit that because it is not a good surfing practice. Actually, such a habit could put one into a serious problem resuling from loss of information. For example, if you are filling out a very important multi page form on the web and you relized that you probably filled in wrong information in the previous page, naturally you will hit the back button. If you knew this fact that you really do not need to use the back button, you still would hit the back back button and as some of you might know from past experience the the whole task of filling out such form becomes so convoluted. Maybe most of you aren't backbuttoner but this is just a reflection.
Happy late holidays~
nirmal