Re: Front Pages

by Virginia Blalock <skatefan(at)visions.simplenet.com>

 Date:  Thu, 27 Aug 1998 19:47:20 -0500
 To:  hwg-theory(at)hwg.org
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At 04:45 PM 8/27/98 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote:

>BTW, I _do_ see a place for "warning pages" as opposed to "splash
>pages" -- the fact that you use both, though, in getting to your
>magazine make it that much harder to use, and more likely that people
>will either give up, or simply bookmark your interior page.  I
>know I would never bookmark a splash page!  Thus, I'd never see
>your front page again, despite what "cover" you might put up to set
>the mood.

I admit that I skip the front page and bookmark the main content page, too.
If a front page is a splash page with say an image map with navigation,
etc, then I don't mind. 

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