Hi Roger,
Thank's for taking the time to express your
thoughts to PC Magazine. I fully concur!
Eric
Roger Turk wrote:
>
>The latest PC Magazine has a feature on making a "great web site." It
>includes all the glitter and glamor that is unnecessary. I sent the
>following e-mail to them:
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>For a web site to be "great," it must:
>
>1. First and foremost, be browser neutral, unless the owner of the site only
>wants people who have a certain browser to access the site.
>
>2. Load quickly. Unless the user is using the web in his/her
>recreational time, time is valuable and twiddling your thumbs waiting for a
>site to load is very, very, expensive.
>
>3. Have substance, or very quickly give the user the choice between
>substance and glitter/glamor. It is very frustrating waiting for a site to
>load all its unnecessary graphic images and then the last thing to load is a
>link for the site in "text only," which loads in a couple of seconds.
>
>4. Have a *good* search engine! You know that a search engine is no good
>when you go to an office supply site, such as Office Depot's, search for "fax
>machine," or "answering machine," and be told that they could not find the
>product.
>
>5. Tone down its flashing, scrolling, spinning, advertising banners or give
>the user the opportunity to turn them off before they even start.
>www.modernsteel.com has sponsor banners that change every 10 seconds (scroll
>and flash in the time they are visible) and no way to turn them off. Drives
>me away from the site!
>
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>I got one of their "thank you, we are always happy to hear our reader's
>opinion" responses, but do not know if they will publish my comments.
>
>Roger Turk
>Tucson, Arizona USA
>
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