>I would really caution against doing this. My rule of thumb is that IF i >have to explain the page to someone. I didn't do my job designing it. Your >not going to be there to hold your users hand every time they come to your >page. > >Build your page and give it to the most non techie person you know and don't >say a word. Bring duct tape if you need to. Let them "discover" whats >supposed to be done. You will be amazed at what they will click on and what >order they fill in forms. > >I found this out with an application I wrote recently. I had several pieces >of information iIneed and first, last name were not the first things on the >list. In fact they were auto populated from other data bits (employee >ID) they filled out early on in the form. BUT nearly all of them noticed >those empty *first last name fields* in the middle of the screen.... they >all tried to fill those out first. Kinda blew me away, the whole coolness >of my form was lost on them cuz they didn't care about 'auto fill' or 'tab >order' they just knew the answer to those fields so went there first. > ></rant>
> yes, check Dominic's follow-up; no, you'd be very CAREFUL, users may be > unable ... Guys, thanks, we're in 'sync'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:304989 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
