Chris, This might be a moment where you should consider the advice and experience of a bunch of people who have been doing this for a number of years.
Also in many cases have actually tested the concept in live user testing...
as a general rule opening a new window actually confuses and annoys more users than it helps.
The only time that it scored as a good thing is when your user was logged into a site and leaving it meant having to log back in on return (example being webmail). Even then the factor was closer than you might think.
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Chris Stratford wrote:
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I do work - but its not my primary source of income - that's the parents :) I still live at home - im 18 and just began university (telecommunications engineering @ UTS)
But that's true - if they click out of your website, they will probably get lost in a myriad of of links and popups, they will forget there name - let alone your website.
That's why all offsite links are new window links. :)
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From: Michael Zeltner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Opening pages in new windows... was Re: [WSG] XHTML (OT??)
i think it depends on how you see it.
the customer (i presume this is your job) wants the user to stay on the site as long as possible. if a site opens in a new window, the possibility that user will browse his site again, is much higher than if
he has just the back button.
from the usability/information architecture point, the target="_blank" is rather bad imho.
just my 0.02 euro ;)
regards,
michael
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