Re: annoying/ spawn window behind main window

Hi List -

I just couldn't resist...wouldn't it be nice to have tags that would work
like the steering and stuff on "IT"? I mean, "think forward, and you'll go
forward. Think backward, and you'll go backward." Hehehe...."think popup,
and WHAM! Think popunder and SHAZAM!"

LOL,

Mike

At 07:30 PM 12/5/01 -0600, Dusty wrote:
>Hello.....
>
>I can't answer to effectiveness or how others respond to popunders. But, I
>do have a question, after vising your site. (Nice site, btw.) What is the
>advantage of a popunder, as opposed to a popup? Personally, I found it
>rather time-consuming to have to minimize the main site just to see a window
>saying hello and thanks for coming. It would seem to me that the time a
>visitor spends looking to see what is under the main window, could more
>effectively be spent looking deeper into the site. And, it might be seen by
>some as a polite gesture to save them that little bit of inconvenience.
>
>Again, just my opinion. Others will vary.
>
>Dusty
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Blue Tapp" <blue(at)bluesarthouse.com>
>To: "HWG Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:32 AM
>Subject: Re: annoying/ spawn window behind main window
>
>
>>
>> I hadn't responded to this before but Jim is right.  No matter how
>annoying
>> popunders are, they are effective which is why they are used so much.  I
>> have read that web users will tolerate ONE popup or popunder per
>site...any
>> more will cause them to avoid the site in the future.  In my case, I am
>> using a popunder for a web site for a boys home at my client's request.
>The
>> popunder is a small window that says, "Thank you for caring..." and I
>don't
>> think people will be clawing at their monitors in rage when they see it!
>> (see in progress at http://www.businessheadquarters.com/fatherdunnes/)
>And
>> thank you to Coach Maria for the code!
>> Blue
>>
>>
>> > The purpose is that they work very well at generating traffic to the web
>> > sites that sponsor them. They are very effective. Since they are
>> > effective, and many web sites that are set up on the model of
>> > advertising revenue are in bad finicial shape, they have to accept them.
>> >
>> > As I said, they are very effective at generating traffic.
>> >
>> >  > I don't see any purpose in these "pop unders" other than to annoy
>> >  > visitors and I hate them with a wite hot passion and make it a point
>> >  > to not return to sites that use them.
>> > --
>> >
>>
>> Blue Tapp
>> Blue's ArtHouse Graphics & Web Design
>> 705 North Florissant Road
>> Ferguson, MO 63135
>> (314) 839-0634
>> fax: (314) 839-1557
>> www.bluesarthouse.com
>> blue(at)bluesarthouse.com
>>
>> "Time to get a web site!"
>>
>
>

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