When creating a website the creator must remember the user and their need to know where they are in the site.  Users can easily get lost within the site's navigation and not remember how they got where they are.  A simple way to fix this without adding a full breadcrumb system like we have here at zonehacks is to simply add a way for the user to travel backwards through the pages with Javascript.

Yeah web browsers have the back button that will do exactly the same thing, however, why should the user rely on the web browser to save them?  The javascript method of venturing back through the site is simple and can be implemented in many different ways.

Fig. A:
<form> <input type="button" value="Go Back" onclick="history.back(-1)" /> </form>
In Fig. A I show how to use an input button to take the user back one page.

Fig. B:
<a href="javascript: history.back(-1);" title="Go back go previous page"> <img src="back.jpg" mce_src="back.jpg" alt="Back" /> </a>
In Fig. B I show how to add a back image that the user can click on to go back one page.  The image can also be replaced to just say "Go back to previous page."

The javascript doesn't just limit you to going back one page, you can change the -1 to -5 if you wanted and would take the user back 5 pages that they have visted.