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Website pet peeves part 2

What country am I in today?

Lots of websites have forms that let select your country. Unfortunately these websites generally have a large number of different countries to choose from. I find this means a regular chore of guessing which country to look for, the right one could be any of the following: Britain, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom or UK. The only option I haven't come across is the actual name of the country where I reside, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

So to anyone writing a web pages with forms allowing a choice of countries. It would be nice to see a default country value determined using a country IP database. That would make things a bit easier.

"Back to" … the future

A lot of sites have links with text such as "Back to homepage", or "Return to to search results". But you may have accessed the page via a link on an external site or even a bookmark. So the wording of such links presumes that a visitor to the site came via the web page that's linked "back" to. My suggestion is to leave out the word "back", as it is fairly redundant and potentially inappropriate.

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