Re: Another W3C strict query

At 09:06 25/05/02 -0500, Dusty wrote:
>Personally speaking, I don't want to spend all this time accumulating
>information and putting it up on my site, for people to come in and dash
>right back out. I want them to spend some time browsing through the site,
>and learning. I realize that this is not the same for many sites, but not
>every site can or should be designed for people to come in quickly and then
>leave.

Quickly is a relative term, but what I said deserves some expansion.

You should never try to keep people on your site for longer than the 
transaction requires. For a site that gives weather updates that might be a 
30 second visit twice a day. For a site like the one you describe a typical 
browsing session will probably be much longer.

When the user decides the visit is over and they want to leave you should 
let them - no matter how much work someone has put into the site. Keeping 
your site on the users machine after they have finished with it is bad.

Andrew

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