Navigation & Labeling Reference Links

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Overviews

• 10 Ways to Orientate Users on Your Site – Jonathan Webb
• 8 Basic Navigation Concepts for Interaction
• Accessible Navigation – Jim Thatcher
• Basic Principles of Web Site Navigation – Charlie Morris
• Designing for navigation – David Walker
• Designing Site Navigation. Introduction – webreference.com
• Essential Navigation Checklists for Web Design – Marta Eleniak
• Nav 101 – Charlie Morris
• Navigation – Our Visitors’ Travel Guide – Chris Heilmann
• Principles of Effective Web Navigation – Zach Dunn
• Navigation Complex – Peter-Paul Koch

Primary Navigation

• Global “Home” Link By Heidi P. Adkisson
• Global Navigation By Heidi P. Adkisson
• Global Site Navigation: Not Worthwhile? – Jared Spool
• Sites Without Menus: Do You Really Need a Main Nav? – Dustin Boston
• Where Am I? – Derek Powazek

Supplemental Navigation

• Defining Supplemental Navigation for Web sites – D. Keith Robinson
• Interaction Design Patterns – Martijn van Welie

Breadcrumbs

• Breadcrumbs: The Web’s “You Are Here” Signs – Stephanos Piperoglou
• Breadcrumbs for the sake of Users – mantruc
• Breadcrumbs for All – MartinB
• Breadcrumbs for PHP Lovers – jstetser
• Breadcrumb Navigation:  An Exploratory Study of Usage – Bonnie Lida, Spring Hull, & Katie Pilcher
• Breadcrumb Navigation By Heidi P. Adkisson
• Breadcrumb Navigation: Further Investigation of Usage – B. Lida Rogers & B. Chaparro
• Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful – Jakob Nielsen
• Breadcrumb Navigation with CSS Triangles – Chris Coyier
• Breadcrumb Trail Design Showcase – Christian Watson
• CSS Breadcrumbs In 5 Minutes – Lorraine Nepomuceno
• More on Breadcrumbs as a Design Cop-Out – Jared Spool
• Exploring Markup for Breadcrumbs – Chris Coyier
• Influence of Training and Exposure on the Usage of Breadcrumb Navigation – S. Hull
• Optimizing Midstream Usability – Peter J. Meyers
• Simple Scalable CSS Based Breadcrumbs – Veerle Pieters
• The Humble Breadcrumb – Jonathan Nicol
• The Problem with Breadcrumb Trails – Tom Scott
• Using Breadcrumbs as a Navigational Aid – Free Usability Advice
• Value of Breadcrumbs – Jared Spool
• Website Structural Navigation – Noah Lazar & Michael Eisenbrey

Indices

• A-Z Indexes: A Painful Exercise in Mind Reading – Brian Donohue
• Index Pages – Unsuspected Project-Profitability Killers – Nicola Rovetta
• The ABCs of the BBC: A Case Study and Checklist – Helen Lippell

Landmark Roles

• 5.3.4. Landmark Roles – W3C
• Assign Landmark Roles to Each Region – W3C
• ARIA Landmark and Widget Roles
• Adding ARIA Landmark Roles – Dennis E. Lembree
• Contributing WAI-ARIA landmark roles to open source CMS themes – Peter Krantz
• Examining WAI-ARIA Document Landmark Roles – Gez Lemon
• Easy ARIA Tip #4: Landmarks – Marco Zehe
• Gez Lemon Interview and ARIA
• HTML5 Example with New elements and WAI-ARIA Landmark Roles – Robert Nyman
• HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ARIA Landmark Support – Steve Faulkner
• How ARIA Landmark Roles Help Screen Reader Users – Leonie Watson
• Introduction to WAI ARIA- Gez Lemon
• Landmark Roles- Jeremy Keith
• More Accessible YUI Grids Layouts with ARIA Landmark Roles – Todd Kloots
• Patterns for WAI-ARIA landmark roles in existing HTML – Peter Krantz
• Presenting Document Structure – WebAIM
• Using WAI ARIA Landmark Roles – Steve Faulkner
• Screen Readers And WAI-ARIA Landmark Roles – Leonie Watson
• Screen Readers, ARIA Roles and HTML5 Support – Leonie Watson
• WAI-ARIA Document Landmark Roles – Leonie Watson

Menus (Drop-down navigation)

• Accessible Drop-Down Menus – Martin Kliehm
• Accessing Nav Drop-Downs – Roger Hudson
• A Flying Menu Attack Can Wound Your Navigation – David Walker
• Architectural Digest vs. This Old House – Jeffery Zeldman
• Best Menu Option Ever: See Fewer Choices – Jared Spool
• Cascading versus Indexed Menu Design – Michael Bernard and Chris Hamblin
• Context Menu Design – Hagan Rivers
• Drop-Down Menus: Use Sparingly – Jakob Nielsen
• Dropdown menus. Use them or lose them? – Russ Weakley
• Dynamic page elements – cloak and dagger web design – Christian Heilmann
• How to Create Clear Web Navigation Menus – Gerry McGovern
• If You Must Use a Dropdown Menu, Make Sure It’s Keyboard Friendly – Roger Johansson
• Inferences from Mouse Movement – Jared Spool
• Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well – Jakob Nielsen
• Mega-Menus Gone Wrong – Jakob Nielsen.
• Navigation Accessibility 1: Menus and Links – Roger Hudson
• Navigational Pulldown Menus in HTML – Jukka ‘Yucca’ Korpela
• Opinion: Should your Homepage Have Drop Down Menus? – Nick DeNardis
• Responsive Navigation Menus: Convert a Menu to a Dropdown for Small Screens – Chris Coyier
• Should a GO Button be Included with a Drop-down List? – Vannesa Mosher and Steven Weintraub
• Some Usability Reminders About Using Capitals and Writing Menus – One Big Field
• Thinking About Accessibility – Select Menus – Mike Davies
• Usability and Fly-Out Menus – D. Keith Robinson
• Users Decide First; Move Second – Erik Ojakaar
• Users have difficulties with dropdown, fly out and rollover menu. – Henrik Olsen
• Web Management’s Biggest Issue: Confusing Menus and Links – Gerry McGovern

Search

• Analyzing User Behaviour: A Case Study – Chris Kutler and Ray Devaney
• Accessible Search
  • Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged- Google
    • Google Accessibility Search – Joe Dolson
    • Google Accessible Search Isn’t – Ben Buchanan
    • Ranking Accessible – T.V. Raman
  • net-guide.co.uk
• Advancing Advanced Search – Stephen Turbek
• Are There Users Who Always Search? – Jared M. Spool
• An Evolution of Search – John D. Holt and David J. Miller
• Best Practices for Designing Faceted Search Filters – Greg Nudelman
• Beyond Goals – Site Search Analytics from the Bottom Up – Lou Rosenfeld
• Cameras, Music, and Mattresses: Designing Query Disambiguation Solutions for the Real World – Greg Nudelman
• Choosing the Right Search Results Page Layout: Make the Most of Your Width – Greg Nudelmanp
• Designing for Faceted Search – Stephanie Lemieux, Earley and Associates
• Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices – Gyorgy Fekete
• Designing Web Usability – Search – Web Developers Virtual Library
• Does Search Need to be in the Upper Right? – Jared Spool
• Do You Really Need Search on Your Website? – Gerry McGovern
• Expanding Results – Peter Morville
• Extend the Searchbar with OpenSearch – Martin Kliehm
• First Chapter of Peter Morville’s New Book “Search Patterns” – Patrick J. Lynch
• Fixing Appalling Intranet Search – Gerry McGovern
• Fresh Presentation on Search Analytics – Louis Rosenfeld
• Front End Concerns When Implementing Faceted Search – Jared Spool
• Google, Meet Web Standards – Roger Johansson
• How to Professionally Manage Search – Gerry McGovern
• HTML5 and Search Engine Optimisation – Bruce Lawson
• IA Heuristics for Search Systems – Louis Rosenfeld
• Identifying Missing Trigger Words from Search Logs – Jared Spool
• Improving Your First Page of Search Results – Gerry McGovern
• In Defense of Search – Peter Morville
• Insights on In-Site Searching – Larry L. Constantine
• Lou Rosenfeld on Search Analytics – Paul Boag
• Making $10,000 a Pixel: Optimizing Thumbnail Images in Search Results – Greg Nudelman
• Mental Models For Search Are Getting Firmer – Jakob Nielsen
• Nine Ways to Fix Intranet Search – James Robertson
• Old News Reduces Search Results Quality – Gerry McGovern
• On Search: The Users – Tim Bray
• On Search: Precision and Recall – Tim Bray
• Our Current Thinking on Search – Jared Spool
• People Search Once, Maybe Twice – Jared M. Spool
• Practical Tips for Government Web Sites (And Everyone Else!) To Improve Their Findability in Search – Vanessa Fox
• Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks – Part 1 – Jared M. Spool
• Search and You May Find – Jakob Nielsen
• Search Behavior Patterns – John Ferrara
• Search By Heidi P. Adkisson
• Search Doesn’t Work Out-of-the-Box – James Robertson
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Avoiding Search Engine Optimization Madness – Gerry McGovern
  • Basics of Search Engine Optimization – Roger Johansson
  • Google
    • Are You Google-Friendly? – Heidi Bautista
    • Feedthebot.com – Patrick Sexton
    • GoogleBot Crawling CSS Files – Eric Enge
    • Google Information for Webmasters – Google
    • Google Page Rank: What Do We Know About It? – Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz
    • Image Replacement + Google – Dave Shea
    • Search Engine Optimization with Google Sitemaps – Matthew Coers
    • SEO For The New Google – Dave Davies
  • Site Wide Search On A Shoe String – Christian Heilmann
  • Index Me, Baby! – Russ Weakley
  • Keywords Meta Tag – S.R. Emerson
  • Preparing a Website for SEO Success – Mike Cherim
  • Revenge of the meta-tag! – Brian Turner
  • Selfish Reasons for Accessible Web Authoring – Kynn Bartlett
  • Search Engine Friendly vs. Search Engine Optimized – Joe Dolson
  • Search Engine Optimization: Beyond Search Keywords – Gerry McGovern
  • Search Engine Optimization — Titles – D. Keith Robinson
  • Search Engine Optimization SEO Made Easier with Schema.org – Steven Seiller
  • Search Optimization, Accessibility, and Images: Best Practices – Joe Dolson
  • Search Optimization, Not Search Engine Optimization – Gerry McGovern
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Pitfalls – Gerry McGovern
  • Secret Benefits of Search Engine Optimisation: Increased Usability – Trenton Moss
  • The Secret Benefits of Accessibility Part 2: Better Search Ranking – Trenton Moss
  • The 10 Commandments of SEO – Part 1 – Kristen Holden
• Search Engines as Leeches on the Web – Jakob Nielsen
• Search Patterns – Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender
• Search Should Work Like Magic – James Robertson
• Search: Visible and Simple – Jakob Nielsen
• Swine Flu, H1N1 Virus, Novel Flu – Gerry McGovern
• SxSW Notes: Web Standards and Search Engines: Searching for Common Ground – Stuart Colville
• The Answer You’re Searching for… is ‘Browse’ – Kath Straub
• The Flamenco Search Interface Project – Marti Hearst
• The Optimal Layout of Search Result Pages – Henrik Olsen
• Three Perils with Search Landing Pages – Jared M. Spool
• Trends For University Web Site Search Engines – Brian Kelly
• Use Old Words When Writing for Findability – Jakob Nielsen
• Web Semantics and Search – Mike Cherim
• What’s the Best Search Box Size? – Christian Watson
• When Search Engines Become Answer Engines – Jakob Nielsen
• When Search Results Mislead – Gerry McGovern
• When Search Words are Misleading – Gerry McGovern
• Where Are You When I Need You??? (or… Ending the search for search) – Kath Straub
• Where SEO and Accessibility Collide – Alastair Campbell
• ‘Where’s My Googlebox’ – Adventures in Search for Silver Surfers – Henny Swan
• Where’s the Search? Re-examining User Expectations of Web Objects – A.D. Shaikh and K. Lenz
• Why Intranet Search Fails – Gerry McGovern
• Wikiasari: The Convergence of Usability and SEO? – Lisa Halabi
• Words that Work: Search Words Versus Website Words – Gerry McGovern
• XHTML and Search Engines – David Dorward
• Your Customer Is A Search Engine – Troy Janisch

Site maps

• 13.3 Provide information about the general layout of a site (e.g., a site map or table of contents) – W3C
• A Sitemap Makes Your Website More Google Friendly – Sukrit Dhandhania
• A Site Map on Every Page – Peter Van Dijck
• Are Sitemaps a Thing of the Past? – Jonathan Christopher
• Fortune 500 Revisited: Current Trends in Sitemap Design – Mark C. Russell
• Improving Your Process: Sitemaps and Design Preparation – Jonathan Christopher
• Preliminary Findings on the Use of Sitemaps – Michael Bernard
• Search Engine Optimization with Google Sitemaps – Matthew Coers
• Should I Create a Sitemap or HTML Site Map? – S.R. Emerson
• Sitemaps.org
• Sitemaps and Site Indexes: What They Are and Why You Should Have Them – Chiara Fox
• Site Maps and Site Indexes, Revisited – Jared Spool
• Site Map Usability- Jakob Nielsen
  • Site Map Usability (update) – Jakob Nielsen
• Sitemap Design: Alphabetical or Categorical? – Michael Bernard
• Site Maps for Web Applications – Drew McLellan
• Sitemaps: Map the Users’ Experience – Peter Van Dijck
• Sitemaps – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Rob Mills
• The Last Word on Site Map Usability – Nielsen-Norman
• The Lazy IA‘s Guide to Making Sitemaps – Stephen Turbek
• The Site Map: An Information Architecture Cop-Out – Jared Spool
• The Problem(s) With Sitemaps – Peter Van Dijck
• Thinking Differently About Site Mapping and Navigation – D. Keith Robinson
• Topic Maps – Lars Johnsen
• Web Site Maps from Dynamic Diagrams – Martin Dodge
• What About Site Maps and Site Indexes? – Jared Spool
• When to Use Sitemaps? – Stefan Mischook

Labels and Organization

Controlled Vocabularies

• ControlledVocabulary.com
• Converting a controlled vocabulary into an ontology: the case of GEM – Jian Qin and Stephen Paling
• Creating a Controlled Vocabulary – Karl Fast, Fred Leise and Mike Steckel
• Mind Your Phraseology! – Christina Wodtke
• Using Controlled Vocabularies to Improve Findability – Christina Wodtke

Faceted Classification

• Design Patterns – Faceted Navigation – Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender
• Faceted Classification, Faceted Search- Tom Johnson
• Faceted Navigation: Grouping – An UnTapped Potential? – James Kalbach
• Faceted Navigation: Typical Structures for Values – James Kalbach
• How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web – William Denton
• Implementing Faceted Classification/Search with a Help Authoring Tool – Tom Johnson
• Second-Level Faceted Navigation – Tom Johnson
• Topic-Based, Hierarchical Navigation- Tom Johnson
• Use of Faceted Classification – Heidi P. Adkisson

Folksonomy

• Controlled Vocabularies and Folksonomies: Why Change is Good – Joshua Porter
• Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content – Joshua Porter
• Folksonomies? How about Metadata Ecologies? – Louis Rosenfeld
• Folksonomy Explanations – Thomas Vander Wal
• Folksonomy By D. Keith Robinson
• Folksonomy By Wikipedia
• I’ve Heard of Folksonomies. Now How do I Apply them to My Site? – Joshua Porter

Ontologies

• Ontologies Come of Age – Deborah L. McGuinness
• Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology – Natalya F. Noy  and Deborah L. McGuinness
• Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags – Clay Shirky

Taxonomies

• Better Living Through Taxonomies – Heather Hedden
• Building Taxonomies – Susan Conway and Char Sliga
• Defining ‘Taxonomy’ – Patrick Lambe
• Developing and Creatively Leveraging Hierarchical Metadata and Taxonomy – Christian Ricci
• Immersed in Structure: The Meaning and Function of Taxonomies – Katherine C. Adams
• Is There an Example of a Scalable Taxonomy?- Joshua Porter
  • Scalable or Usable Taxonomies – Donna Maurer
• Managing Taxonomies – James Kelway
• Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! – Lars Marius Garshol
• Strategies for Categorizing Categories – Jared M. Spool
• Taxonomy – A ‘Disambiguation’ – The Content Strategy Noob
• Ten Taxonomy Myths – Montague Institute
• Using a Taxonomy to Create Faceted Navigation – Stephanie Lemieux s
• What Are The Differences Between A Vocabulary, A Taxonomy, A Thesaurus, An Ontology, And A Meta-Model? – Woody Pidcock
• Where Nav Meets Taxonomy – Victor Lombardi

Related Label and Organization info

• A 1-Month No-Committee Web Redesign for Juniata College Homepage – Karine Joly
• Alphabetized Links Are Random Links – Jared Spool
• Block Level Links and Accessibility – Roger Johansson
• Links and Classes to Wrap or Not to Wrap – Niels Matthijs
• Choosing the Right Classification Words – Gerry McGovern
• Classification Schemes (and when to use them) – Donna Maurer
• Link Types: a Second Look – Mark Bernstein
• Metadata Glossary – Victor Lombardi
• Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines – Jakob Nielsen
• Page Title Labeling – mantruc
• Should Arrows be Placed Before Link Text or After? – Dmitry Fadeyev
• The $300 Million Button – Jared M. Spool
• The Economics of Classification – Gerry McGovern
• Websites Reflect True Face of an Organization – Gerry McGovern

Layout: Left, Right, Horizontal Navigation and Source Ordering

• Navigate on the right? The jury is still out – William Hudson
• Page Source Order and Accessibility – Roger Hudson and Russ Weakley
• Right-Justified Navigation Menus Impede Scannability – Jakob Nielsen
• Removing Left-Hand Navigation – Free Usability Advice
• Source Order, Skip Links and Structural Labels – Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley, and Lisa Miller
• Should Nav be on the Left or on the Right? – Jared Spool
• The Challenges of Moving to Horizontal Navigation – Joshua Porter
• Web Site Navigation Menu Placement – Mike Cherim

Link Navigation. Uniform resource locator (URL) navigation

“Back to Top” Links

• Avoid Within-Page Links – Jakob Nielsen
• ‘Back to Top’ Links Considered Harmful – Jukka ‘Yucca’ Korpela
• Replicating Browser Behavior: The Top Link – Mike Cherim

“Click here” don’t use it…s

• 6.1 Link text – W3C.
• An Ode to Click Here – Heidi
• Click Here and Other Meaningless Link Phrases – Roger Johansson
• Click Here Links – Free Usability Advice
• Click Here to Read this Article – Jonathan Christopher
• Clearly identify the target of each link
• Descriptive Link Texts – Jukka ‘Yucca’ Korpela
• Don’t Click Here – Dey Alexander
• Don’t Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking – Jeff Atwood
• Don’t Use ‘Click here’ – Iris Jarmin
• Don’t Click Here – Avoid Verbs? – Hal Goodtree
• Don’t use “click here” as link text
• Example for Checkpoint 13.1 – Clearly identify the target of each link – W3C.
• I Don’t Want to Read More or Click Here – Karen Mardahl
• Link Purpose – Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 9 – Dey Alexander
• Link Text: Where Does it Come From? – Jonathan Christopher
• More on Meaningless Link Labels – Jared Smith
• Providing Context for Ambiguous Link Phrases – Gez Lemon
• Should Web Writers and UX Designers use ‘Click Here’? – Melanie
• Why “Click here” is Bad Linking Practice – Jukka ‘Yucca’ Korpela

Deep Linking

• Deep Linking is Good Linking – Jakob Nielsen

Inline Linking

• Experiments in Delinkification – Nicholas Carr
• Removing Inline Links to Increase Readability – Tom Johnson
• The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains – Nicholas Carr

Link Color and Decoration

• Change the Color of Visited Links – Jakob Nielsen
• Do Links Need Underlines? – Jared Spool
• Link Color, Treatment, and Rollover Behavior – Heidi P. Adkisson
• Link List Color – Jakob Nielsen
• Should Hypertext Links be Blue and Purple? – Luc Carton
• Styling Links – Jonathan Nicol
• The Importance of Link Highlighting – Grant Broome
• Usability Violation: Link Colors that Don’t Change When Visited – Jesper Ronn-Jensen.
• Where Are All the Visited Links? – Lisa Herrod

Link Text

• Writing Killer Web Headings and Links – Gerry McGovern
• How to make URLs user-friendly – Adam Baker
• Hypertext Links – WebAIM
• Linkification – Cameron Moll
• Perfectly Worded Hyperlinks Equals Better Usability and Conversion – Sabina Idler
• The Importance of Links as Calls to Action – Christian Watson
• The Right Trigger Words – Jared M. Spool
• The Door to Accessibility: How Widely You Open It Is Your Choice – Glenda Watson Hyatt
• The 7 Sins of Inaccessible Blogs- Glenda Watson Hyatt
  • Sin #2 of Inaccessible Blogs: Using Consecutive One-Worded Links – Glenda Watson Hyatt
• The Two Fundamental Skills of Web Writing – Gerry McGovern
• Web Writing: How to Judge a Good Website From a Bad One – Gerry McGovern
• Writing Effective Link Text – Trenton Moss
• Why Web Links Are Calls To Action – Gerry McGovern

Skip Links

• 6.2 Grouping and Bypassing Links
• Skip Links: Chrome, Safari and Added WAI-ARIA – Paul Ratcliffe
• Skip Links Need to be at Least Temporarily Visible – Roger Johansson
• Explanation – Standard (o) – Skip Navigation Link – University of Wisconsin
• Skip Navigation Links (Updated 6/19/2009) – Jim Thatcher
• Keep Them Visible! – Joe Clark
• Keyboard Navigation and Internet Explorer – Gez Lemon
• Multiple Skip Links – Mel Pedley
• Screenreader Visibility – Bob Easton
• Skip Links – Gez Lemon
• Skip Navigation – John Eric Brandt
• Skip Navigation Links By Jim Thatcher
• Skip navigation solutions- Jon Hicks
  • Skip links update – Jon Hicks
• Skip navigation techniques – Jim Thatcher
• Skipping over navigation links – Mark Pilgrim
• Source Order, Skip Links and Structural Labels – Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley, and Lisa Miller
• Techniques – Joe Clark
• The Shelf Life of a Skip Link – Henny Swan
• Using Skip Nav Links – Zoe Gillenwater
• When and How to Visually Hide Content – Dennis Lembree

Related Link Navigation info

• 15 Usability Guidelines for Designing Web Site Links – Justin Mifsud
• a { outline: none; } Don’t do it!
• A Paradox of Navigation Metaphors for the Web – Tom Johnson
• Accessibility – Handling Repeated Adjacent Links – Henny Swan
• Accessibility and HTML5 Block Links – Derek Featherstone
• Choose URIs Wisely – Olivier Thereaux
• Command Links – Jakob Nielsen
• Conceptual Links Ttrump Hyperlinks – Kimberly Patch
• Determining Link Order on Intranet Portals – Jared Spool
• Designing Accessible Navigation – Joseph Dolson
• Do Not Create Empty Links – Roger Johansson
• Do Not Remove the Outline From Links and Form Controls – Roger Johansson
• Don’t Design ‘What If’ Navigation – Gerry McGovern
• Don’t Neglect the title Attribute – Jon Christopher
• Enhancing Web Site Navigation Using The LINK Element – Brian Kelly
• Free Choice and The Usability of Links – Kim Krause Berg
• Good URL Bad URL – Aaron Goldman
• Guidelines for Linking – D. Keith Robinson
• Guidelines for Visualizing Links – Jakob Nielsen
• HTML5 Accessibility Chops: Block Links – Steve Faulkner
• Improving the Usability of Within-Page Links – Bruce Lawson
• Intelligent Paths Make Websites Friendlier – Stefan Mischook
• Hagan Rivers’ Escaping Navigation Hell, Live – Brian Christiansen
• How Did You Get Here? – Jeff Lash.
• How To Make Links Work For Your Website – Gerry McGovern
• How to Write a Great Web Link – Gerry McGovern
• How Web is Different from Print - Gerry McGovern
• Mobile Accessibility Tip – Use Visible Anchored Links – Henny Swan
• Links and Classes to Wrap or Not to Wrap – Niels Matthijs
• Link Rot
• Make Links Focusable (or use real buttons) – Roger Johansson
• Navigation Blindness – Henrik Olsen
• Opening Links in New Windows – Glenda Watson Hyatt
• There Is No One Right Way To Categorize Information – Susan Weinschenk
• to_be_classified – Elise Conradi
• Tweaking Your Facets, Part I: Supporting Hierarchy with Multiple Selection – Jaimie Sirovich
• Why In-Page Navigation Links Matter More Than Menus – uxmovement New

Three Click Rule

• Evaluating Content Validity on the Internet
• Testing the Three-Click Rule – Josh Porter
• The 3-Click Rule – by Free Usability Advice
• Voodoo Usability – Jakob Nielsen
• Web Page Design: Implications of Memory, Structure and Scent For Information Retrieval – Kevin Larson and Mary Czerwinski

Wayfinding

• Ambient Findability- Peter Morville
  • Ambient Findability: Findability Hacks – Peter Morville
• Better Than Free – Kevin Kelly
• Beyond Findability – By Luigi Spagnolo
• Findability.org – Peter Morville
• Findability and The Information Paradox – Tom Johnson
• Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry – Aarron Walter
• Finding Your Way – Joshua Brewer
• Information Architecture and Findability – Russell Wilson
• Making It Findable – Kath Straub
• It’s Not Just About Searching – It’s About Findability- Martin White
• Seeing the World in Symbols: Icons and the Evolving Language of Digital Wayfinding – Jonathan Follet
• Task Oriented Information Architecture – Michael Andrews
• Understanding the Cost of We Can’t Find Anything – Thomas Vander Wal

Articles & related info

• 404 Best Practices – Chris Coyier
• Accessible Tabs Part 2, The Solution – Emily Coward
• Alphabetical Sorting Must (Mostly) Die- Jakob Nielsen
  • Why Jakob Nielsen Got it (Mostly) Wrong – W Craig Tomlin
• Examining the Order Effect of Website Navigation Menus With Eye Tracking – Alex J DeWitt
• Guide to Website Navigation Design Patterns – Cameron Chapman
• Heading Navigation in Web Browsers – Roger Johansson
• Link Checking For Old Web Sites – Brian Kelly
• Marking Up the Current Page with HTML5 Links – Leonie Watson
• Mystery Meat Navigation – Christian Watson
• Navigation is More Important Than Search – Gerry McGovern
• Planning And Implementing Website Navigation – Kayla Knight
• Re-tabulate – Jeremy Keith
• Tap is the New Click (Presentation) – Dan Saffer
• The Case Against Vertical Navigation – Louis Lazari
• The Three Clicks Myth – James Robertson
• Three Easy Metrics for Improving Website Navigation – Jeff Sauro
• Web Navigation Must Face Forwards, Not Backwards – Gerry McGovern