anallawalla - 5:12 am on Dec 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

All I'll say is that some people are really good at marketing themselves and others are not. The less we help that process the better.

As for self-referencing links, I think this happens when the same navigation bar is used on every page, and when the link for the current page is also enabled. I regard that as a toss of a coin for usability -- some users will want to click on the nav bar button for the displayed page, presumably because they don't realise it. Should they be given an inert link that looks like other nav links, or do we let them refresh the page by making it clickable? I prefer the latter -

I once experienced this confusion. It was something like this:

Home page > Company, Products, Support etc

Products page > Product X, Product Y, etc

I was on the Product X page and I found that I could not click on the Products "link" so that I could navigate to another product, but I was forced to go back to the Home page before being allowed to see the Products page. Yes, I could hit the backspace key, but IMO good design should not draw attention to navigation quirks.