User Experience
Finding your way
4 Jan 2002
An important part of helping people to use your site is allowing them to know where they are and how they got there. Breadcrumb trails have emerged as a common way of doing this. But at the same time, many sites are breaking the brower’s built-in mechanism for helping people remember what they have seen.
Elegant Hack discusses the importance of highlighting visited links in a different color than links that have not yet been clicked.