JJG sends an article on web conventions here on peterme's site.

he also questions the location of the search box (but agrees it lives as a box and reminds me of tabs and shopping carts... Taylor points out "skip intro" before flash opeings. keep 'em coming! Maybe I'll write an article...

no I'm not talking thurderlizards.
the opening paragraph of this issue of A List Apart made me wonder...other than the left hand nav, how many established web interface conventions are there?

• the yahoo hierarchy
• more like this
• next
• back
• the yahoo breadcrumb
• back to top
• submit (to many people's chagrin)
• top nav is global
• logo links to homepage
• logo is in top left
• search box is in top left and is a text box with "search" written under it
• jobs can be found at the bottom of every page, or at least the homepage

reading Future Focus: Viva Aus Vegas on project cool today, I was amazed at how Project Cool was making exactly the same mistake they were complaining about in the article... ruining the point of their article on inappropriate advertising with bad banner use. Banners are a necessary eveil, especialy for content sites, but there is a smart and a foolish way to handle them. Anyhow, dashing off to work so follow this link to read it and also my annoyed (and badly spelled) comment at the bottom of the article.

more on this subject later.