Habtom - 1:25 pm on Sep 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

when I buy home computers the salesman never takes me to one side and tells me what Yahoo did or didn't do in 1995.

I find that irrelevant. The question was whether the main logo of a site need to contain a link back to the homepage (the way webmasterworld's logo is linked), and do visitors care?

The answer is yes many visitors do expect that, and as Brett mentioned above,it is also vital to have an explicit link to the home page clearly stating that it is linked to the home page.

[edited by: Habtom at 1:29 pm (utc) on Sep. 5, 2007]