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SIMPLE WEBSITE NAVIGATION FORMATTING SUGGESTION

Tannatippit
Tannatippit ✭
December 4, 2022 in Suggest an Idea

I'd like make a suggestion regarding website navigation, when it comes to returning to a previous page. It would make things sooooo much easier if you could click the back button to return to the previous page. For example: currently, when you open a book in the digital library or when you open a photograph from the memories page, in order to return to the exact place you were in on the previous page, you have to click the link to go back. Pressing the back button, or swiping back to the previous page (on an iPad for example), which I feel most people have a tendency to do, takes you back to the top of the previous page. This is extremely frustrating and time consuming, in my opinion. It would make things so much easier if swiping or pressing the back button returned you back to your exact position on the previous page. For iPad users in particular, this website is not very iPad friendly in general. I'm really not a fan of the app, for similar navigation reasons as well.

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  • General User Interface Issues
  • Record Viewing
  • Other
  • future functionality
  • memories-(photos-and-stories)
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  • Anna Jeannine Deru
    Anna Jeannine Deru ✭
    December 4, 2022

    That's a good point! Whenever I am attaching sources, it took me a while to figure out how to get to the person's page because when I am done, I have to:

    1. Not click the back arrow (you can't)
    2. Not click the "return to record" button at the bottom that seems like the one you should push (maybe I am clueless but that page doesn't seem real helpful to me)
    3. Not click the "record" link at the top of the page
    4. Click the name of the person (another link) wayyyyy up at the top of the page where I couldn't find it.

    And if you do end up on that "record" page with all the information about the source, you have to find the person on the right which is just another aggravating step.

    I agree... a little more user-friendly website would be nice!

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  • MrsLCJ
    MrsLCJ ✭
    December 30, 2022

    Good ideas

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