Re: Site Captures

And a very interesting opinion indeed! I like this idea. Thank you!
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Kevin Bayley
Web Developer
Prairie North Internet
http://www.prairienorth.com/
Member > HTML Writers Guild
Member > International Webmasters
                 Association

> <opinion>
> However, I was taught in web design school that an opening page should
> never scroll. The opening page gives you 100% view penetration of visitors
> to your site. If the visitor then has to scroll down another screen, the
> penetration drops to less than 30% for the information displayed. This
> demonstrates that people scan the Internet for information and are not
that
> willing to scroll through your screen while looking for their information.
> If it is not on the opening page they will move on to the next web site.
If
> what they are looking for is found on the main page and it links to an
> additional page, they will be willing to scroll down the second page to
get
> their info.
>
> Just my thoughts about scrolling main pages. </opinion> ;-)
>
> Jim Haslam
> jim(at)haslam.com
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