i just love "hornswaggled" that was nice! oh, and yeah, what jerry said.
tw On 4/24/06, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um, your people are idiots? > > Seriously though, I'd probably give a couple of solutions. > Color code the non-available documents differently. > Change the link from a popup word doc to a named anchor at the bottom > of your page containig a section describing how to get unlinked forms. > > > On 4/24/06, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On our intranet site, I am creating a couple pages for departments to > > place commonly-used forms (in .DOC and .PDF format) for users to > > download. > > > > Some of the forms we use are multi-part forms that cannot be downloaded, > > obviously. However, the departments still want these forms listed on > > the page with the other downloadable forms. > > > > But, wait. They *do* want these forms to be clickable. Whenever a user > > clicks the link for one of the multi-part forms, the dept wants me to > > display a basic Word doc that says "Sorry, this form is not available > > for download. Please order the form at...." > > > > To me, that is totally ridiculous. So, my alternative was to put a > > small comment, below each non-downloadable form, that says, "The form, > > listed above, is not available online. Please order the form at..." > > > > My justification is that the user can immediately see the comment and > > have no need to click further. > > > > If I turn this into a clickable link, that opens a Word doc, I'm sure > > the users will be pissed that they had to go to the trouble of clicking > > the link, saving the file (or just opening it) and then opening Word > > only to find they have been hornswaggled. My opinion is why put the > > user through the extra steps? > > > > Then, the dept has another alternative. They want me to use a "title" > > attribute so that when the user hovers over a link, the tooltip will say > > "This form is not available online...." > > > > I don't care for that solution because nothing will inform the user to > > hover long enough for the tooltip to appear. > > > > What are your thoughts on this? > > > > M!chael A Dawson > > Manager of Web Applications > > Office of Technology Services > > University of Evansville > > 1800 Lincoln Avenue > > Evansville, IN 47722 > > 812-488-2581 > > MSN Messenger ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary > > numbers and those who don't." > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:205287 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
