I have a client who is preparing to launch a new software product for
sending multimedia email (this post is _not_ about whether or not that is a
good idea! :)
They are considering having their web site homepage contain an animated
demo of the product. That is, when you come to the site that is what you
will see - the demo. You will have no choice but to see it.
I have advised that this is not appropriate, even though the primary
purpose of the site is to market the product. They asked if cookies could
be used to determine if a site visitor was a first time visitor or if they
had been to the site before. I know this is possible (right?) assuming that
the site visitor has a relatively recent version of Netscape or MSIE, _and_
that they do not have cookies turned off in the browser.
However, I also believe that one must have a high level of access to the
web server to set this up. That is, the 'typical' web hosting account will
not allow you access to the server to set up this cookie implementation. Is
that correct? Apologies for my lack of knowledge about server access. It's
just that on the web hosts I've used, I've never noticed any services
offered that might allow me to do more than the usual FTP up files, view
some site stats, maybe create password protected directories, that level of
access. I thought that to do anything with cookies one needed to really get
into the inner workings of the server.
Thanks for any comments on this subject.
Barry
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