Home Link 7-1 Answers
Elsa Hoelscher
Move the home link to the last or second last item on the main menu. I've wondered if this is a good idea because personally I often look for "Contact Us" in that position, but it seems to help users. But sometimes I will put it second last so at least it's there, but I could see this getting lost in the middle then.
I also think the general reason why people want to go back to the home page is because they get lost on a website, so I think reducing the cause is a better solution that encouraging people to "start over" to figure things out. This is unless your home page is like Facebook or SO where it contains the most recent information.
It's true that it is standard practice to have a click-able logo that returns home. However, I have seen first hand that non-technical users have problems when this method is used exclusively. Even when Home is on the breadcrumb. For this reason I will always include a home link on the navbar. People expect to see it.
As a general rule of thumb, I would suggest that you do go ahead and have the logo be a link to home (obviously), and then go ahead and conduct some user tests to ascertain whether you need a separate link or not.
You may get all kinds of advice from people, professionals, books and so on, but until you conduct tests or get feedback after you have implemented whatever you have chosen, you will not know for sure which way is best.Good luck. -b
A few versions ago a small home icon would appear when you hover over the logo. This very quickly conveys what clicking on the logo will do without having to tell the user or to make it noticeable when the user might not been it (hence appear on hover).
What they do now though is have a very obvious hover effect (the background gets lighter) so the user can see that clicking the logo does something, however maybe not exactly what until they click it for the first time.
I'd say that ultimately it depends on your userbase. A lot of mine for instance are reasonably uninitiated, so on our Intranet applications we still include it and also make the logo/header link back to the main page.
Breadcrumb or not, users need an obvious way of getting home and the best way to go about that would be to include a link in your navigation. That way, it's a little more intuitive for users of all abilities.
At the end of the day though, user testing should answer this question. If users are struggling to figure out how to return to the home page for lower level content, it might be time to add a link in the main navigation :-)
Personally I hate them. I prefer the Stack Exchange approach of having the logo be the home page and close to the menu. But, the best example of the logo being part of the menu is definately apple.com.
Microsoft.com - no home linkDell.com - no home linkIntel.com - no home linkSony.com - no home linkHGTV.com - no home link (and a counter argument about StackExchange users being more sophisticated than other users)
One reason I personally think is important and relevant is SEO - using the alt text for the logo is much more valuable than having home as anchor text for a link. Having numerous links to the same content that early in the HTML can also have a negative effect.
This client has Weblink 10.1.0.151 and is trying to make some customization to their page. On their Browse and Search pages, they are missing links for Home, Browse and Search. I looked at it further and found that their logo is also the Home link button, however, they want it to be it's own link named Home, like the example: anaheim.png
In Weblink Designer, in the Navigation tab, they enabled the Welcome, Browse and Search links to be displayed, however this only worked for the Welcome page. I imagine there is some customization overriding this, although they said they set everything back to default.
In WebLink 10.1 from the browse page the link for the search page is within that 'Advanced' link in the 2nd screenshot. The link for home page is just the logo. Adding the links as you're describing would require some customization.
Hello.
For some time now I've had a problem with Google home: my philips hue lights no longer work.
This prompted me to unlink / link my Philips hue account. Unfortunately, since then I've been unable to connect it, and I keep getting the same error: "could not reach philips hue".
I've since tried everything I could find on the internet (reboot the bridge, my internet, my phone, create a new hue account, "clean up" in the hue app, uninstall google home, from another phone, ...)
Note that everything works from the Philips hue app. But I can no longer control my lights by voice.
Someone have an idea, I do not know what to do!
Thanks a lot!
I was finally able to find a solution that wasn't ideal, but functional.
From my old phone it didn't work, but from my wife's phone it did.
I don't know if it's because the Google account isn't the same, but it works with the same Hue account.
Hello, thank you for your help.
Unfortunately I have already tested each of these points.
My concern comes in point 4, I unlinked my Hue account and since it is impossible to re-link, I have this error consistently: "could not reach philips hue".
I'm facing the same issue with my daughter's account (which I manage through Family Link). The Philips Hue was linked in her Home account, but some of the bulbs were missing. I made the mistake of unlinking Philips Hue and now I get the same message as you when trying to relink. I have tried on her Pixel 4a, IPad and a factory reset Pixel 5. After trying countless things to resolve this, I tried to link a couple other 3rd party apps (Roborock, MyHue) and received the same exact message. So I'm not sure this is a Hue problem and maybe a Google Home issue adding 3rd party apps.
Everything works fine with Alexa, so we can be certain this is a Google issue and NOT Hue. It's frustrating that no one from Google is bothering to provide assistance. It's just community members fiddling around, trying to accidentally stumble upon a fix.
It worked, but instead of an 11-digit code with my version of Android, I had to select "Get Started." The next page asked what do you want to link to your Hue system? I clicked the icon Google Assistant, and the Philips page popped up and asked me to grant permission. I granted it and it worked, the link was made.
Update: I spoke too soon; yes, my Nest Hub is linked to my Hue bridge, but I cannot access any of its functions on the Hub. I have an older standard Hub in the house, and it had no problem; in fact, it is linked to two hubs, one 100 miles away in my apartment. So no joy, any ideas?
I have the same issue, did the update of the apps, uninstall/reinstall and still no luck. Its definitely something with either google or android, They better fix it. I didnt spend all this money on light bulbs and google home devices just so they dont work!
Same issue. Disconnected Hue from Google app per the recommendations and now it won't reconnect. I tried the matter enabled device idea and it just says it cannot find device. It was working for years! Google customer service is non existent.
This is very frustrating and disappointing. Following Google's recommendations actually seems to have made things worse. Very odd that after years of having Google and Hue working seamlessly, all of a sudden, without warning, and without any alterations on my part, they are completely foreign to one another.
More specifically, I want to have the user folder for my home account another disk that has more space, but keep my other smaller accounts on my ssd. I was able to copy my user folder to another disk, but now I need to link it to the home folder on my ssd, I want it accessible from a normal boot, and please don't tell me that what I did was not the best thing, I just want an answer. How do I get it to create a link that goes from /home/username to /extra-home/username and is recognised by the system when loading the user folders?
If everything looks good, at least from the terminal (contents of /home/username/ appear as expected), then log out and log back in (I'm assuming you're on Ubuntu desktop) and it should be working normally. However, if it isn't, just delete the symlink and move the archived home folder back to its original location.
My experience on this is: it never doesn't work well with symlinks. Permissions, user services and so on sometime doesn't follow or work with symlinks: so you may get sudo doesn't working, user configuration app doesn't working correctly and so on...
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hey @creedon, i've been searching for a solution to this issue. i don't want to hide the page, i just don't want 'home' listed on the nav bar. moving the home page to 'not linked' moves the homepage out of my site's public facing structure. i want the site to remain as is, but just lose the 'home' link on the navbar. thoughts?
Hi @tchandler,
Thanks for posting this question! As @creedon mentioned, the way to hide the homepage link from the primary navigation would be to move the homepage to your "Not Linked" section. This does not hide the page from public view or from search engines. If it is set as the homepage, the domain will always direct to that page. Additionally, your logo image or site title functions as a link and always directs to the homepage as well, unless you've added custom code in order to redirect this. So, even in the "Not Linked" section, your homepage will always remain visible to the public, just not in your primary navigation.