Clickable header/logo?

[Submerge]

I've been seeing the growing fad lately, with CSS of the header being treated as a background and not clickable (link-wise) directing to the homepage. I was wondering what are you opinions on this? Should the header/logo always be linked to the homepage or not?

I always personally felt it was a nice user-friendly gesture for easy access back to the root and have always linked the header to the homepage, but has anyone else shared the same ideals?

[boron]

I allways recommend site owners to set header as a hyperlink to Home. The big area of header is convinient to click, while the little Home link not so much.

[Mystic]

Yes, its better to make the header clickable.

[Sunfrog]

I vote for the clickable header. I had this problem the other day on a website. I couldn't find the Home link and the header didn't click so I have to use the Back button.

I also read somewhere that the Back button is either the most, or second most used button on a browser. I forgot what was #1.

[Mystic]

The "Go" Button ?
I use my mouse buttons for back and forward, and mouse gestures for opening links in new tab (foreground/background).

[boron]

In Opera there's a convenient "Paste and Go" option. You put the url in the browser search line and it searching starts.

[Mystic]

In Opera there's a convenient "Paste and Go" option. You put the url in the browser search line and it searching starts.
Yeah, thats a great feature. Its tiny tidbits like that, which makes me love Opera.
In Firefox also you can do it, by getting an extension.

[Submerge]

Okay, thanks for the input guys. :) And for the back button, phhh.. who needs that. My mouse has side buttons which integrate automatically in the browser for back and forward.

[Tyler]

Clickable header? Yuck! Clickable logo? Yum!

[Submerge]

Well, you know. If there is no logo, might as well make the header clickable. But, with the web 2.0 style taking over, headers will be virtually gone. Atleast graphical headers.

[Whitey]

I also read somewhere that the Back button is either the most, or second most used button on a browser. I forgot what was #1.


That's a problem I've had quite a bit since I started using AJAX more...


People can browse through an entire forum, hit back, and lose all their history...


Although I suppose it'd be good for sites that you don't want to keep records of :).



- Whitey

[Submerge]

Yep, I truly hate that. My Internet's web mail does that and it's a pain to login because you hit the back button.

[Breakpoint]

I would always make the header clickable