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Linking back to previous webpage?

Linking back to previous webpage?

Currently the company I work for separates their company corporate website and their careers page. What this means is if you go to the parent site and click on the link to see career opportunities, you go to a completely diff…

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What is the most familiar wording of linking to a PDF file?

What is the most familiar wording of linking to a PDF file?

For certain industries and user-bases, it can make sense to include a link to a PDF version of a HTML web page — so that visitors can either view or download it.

From a recognizability and familiarity perspective, what should the link text say when leading to a PDF?

Brainstormed phrases and words to use

In my case, I would accompany it with a recognizable icon such as: PDF icon image

A few text variations that I came up with:

  1. PDF PDF icon image
  2. See PDF PDF icon image
  3. View PDF PDF icon image
  4. Save PDF PDF icon image
  5. Open PDF PDF icon image
  6. Browse PDF PDF icon image
  7. Download PDF PDF icon image

But there are likely many more potentially good options.

Variations of those phrases

All of the above could work without “PDF”, for example:

  • Save PDF icon image
  • See as PDF icon image
  • Download PDF icon image
  • etc.

Also, they can feature a preposition or conjunction like “as” or “in”, for example:

  • View in PDF PDF icon image
  • Open as PDF PDF icon image
  • etc.

That can be extended with natural language, for example:

  • View page as a PDF PDF icon image
  • Download this page as a PDF file PDF icon image
  • Browse this page in the PDF format PDF icon image
  • Click here to save this page as a PDF file PDF icon image
  • etc.

Given all the possibilities, what is the best practice considering user-behaviour or user-research?

Considering people on different devices

To find the “best” term, I think it is important to suit people:

  • with different browser defaults (whether the file will be downloaded or opened in a new tab/window),
  • on various devices (such as PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones,
    e-readers, etc.),
  • and using certain operating systems (e.g. Mac OS X arguably handles PDFs
    much better than Windows
    , which tends to crash PCs).

Without any tangible data to use to make a decision here — I am unsure how to proceed.

What do industry leaders do?

Have the practices of what “big players” and influencers (creators of various platforms for blogs, forums, frameworks, even operating systems, etc.) do when linking to PDFs been quantified or qualified?


It may also be worth including the file-size or file-name, but that is covered elsewhere.

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Best practices for application alerts

Best practices for application alerts

As a developer, I’m always confused about the three basic values of any application’s alert:

Title
Message
Dismiss button

What should be placed in those 3 values? FAQ for myself:

Should the title be a resume of what happened or where…

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How to explain to my client the difference between Front End and Back End?

How to explain to my client the difference between Front End and Back End?

I’m currently managing a project to bring a medium-sized shop into the online world for the first time.

The very non-technical shop owner is failing to understand what “front-end” and “back-end” means, and I was wondering i…

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A standard / benchmark test for user familiarity or proficiency with computer technology in usability testing

A standard / benchmark test for user familiarity or proficiency with computer technology in usability testing

When conducting usability testing, a variable that comes up is the competence or familiarity of different users with Internet or software application technology. It seems strange to compare different usability studies and results if there …

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Should usability testing of a competitor’s website be a part of your usability testing routine?

Should usability testing of a competitor's website be a part of your usability testing routine?

I was reading up on best practices on usability testing for websites and a recommendation was that get your participants to do usability testing on your competitors website as well as that would help you better understand how…

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How to make a user feel secure when using an iframe for payments

How to make a user feel secure when using an iframe for payments

I’ve got a site where it’s very difficult for me to add SSL, so I’m using a secure iframe on the payment page to collect credit card details.

Currently it’s set up to appear like it’s the same site. The only issue is that I …

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How to make a user feel secure when using an iframe for payments

How to make a user feel secure when using an iframe for payments

I’ve got a site where it’s very difficult for me to add SSL, so I’m using a secure iframe on the payment page to collect credit card details.

Currently it’s set up to appear like it’s the same site. The only issue is that I …

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What’s the origin of the metaphor “cloud”?

What’s the origin of the metaphor “cloud”?

Today we use the term “cloud” without thinking about it. We use it mainly in terms of storage online, far away and unreachable. We can’t plug in a USB memory in the cloud to download data. We plug the USB into our own computer, connect to the cloud and download, as if it was a local storage.

In the two great Wikipedia articles Cloud storage and File hosting service there are a lot of information on architecture, potential threats and costs, but nothing really on the origin of the word cloud.

Searching online you get a lot of answers of the meaning of cloud, some better than others. One of the more fun comes from Rebecca J. Rosen’s article Clouds: The Most Useful Metaphor of All Time?

. . . when engineers would map out all the various components of their networks, but then loosely sketch the unknown networks (like the Internet) theirs was hooked into. What does a rough blob of undefined nodes look like? A cloud. And, helpfully, clouds are something that take little skill to draw. It’s a squiggly line formed into a rough ellipse. Over time, clouds were adopted as the stand-in image for the part of a computer or telephone network outside one’s own.

However amusing, it still doesn’t answer the question – where did it come from? Who coined it? What’s the origin of the metaphor cloud?

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What’s the origin of the metaphor “cloud”?

What’s the origin of the metaphor “cloud”?

Today we use the term “cloud” without thinking about it. We use it mainly in terms of storage online, far away and unreachable. We can’t plug in a USB memory in the cloud to download data. We plug the USB into our own computer, connect to the cloud and download, as if it was a local storage.

In the two great Wikipedia articles Cloud storage and File hosting service there are a lot of information on architecture, potential threats and costs, but nothing really on the origin of the word cloud.

Searching online you get a lot of answers of the meaning of cloud, some better than others. One of the more fun comes from Rebecca J. Rosen’s article Clouds: The Most Useful Metaphor of All Time?

. . . when engineers would map out all the various components of their networks, but then loosely sketch the unknown networks (like the Internet) theirs was hooked into. What does a rough blob of undefined nodes look like? A cloud. And, helpfully, clouds are something that take little skill to draw. It’s a squiggly line formed into a rough ellipse. Over time, clouds were adopted as the stand-in image for the part of a computer or telephone network outside one’s own.

However amusing, it still doesn’t answer the question – where did it come from? Who coined it? What’s the origin of the metaphor cloud?

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