Re: annoying websites

there have been studies using lasers to determine where people looked on a
web page, pictures came out low on the list, people read the content first.

Paul Roberts

roberts_paul(at)bigfoot.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauren Hanka" <bluejay(at)starband.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: annoying websites


| Yeah... and you know what they really like? Pictures... *BIG,* clear,
| pictures! So how do we balance load time/picture size to make everyone
| happy?
|
| Lauren
|
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Cook, Shelby" <scook(at)equibase.com>
| To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
| Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 9:52 AM
| Subject: RE: annoying websites
|
|
| > This may have been it's origins but it is mainstream now and the
| population
| > of the net is quite different today.  Perhaps you are only interested in
| > sharing ideas on your websites.  I'm not.  I'm out to gather customers
and
| > get them to buy something.  Most of them are not web-literate (heck,
half
| of
| > them aren't computer literate).  People are influenced by many things,
| > content being only one of them.  Color, size, shape, layout and even
fonts
| > all have an effect on people, although for most it is subconscious.
Part
| of
| > gathering my customers is showing them appealing images, colors, etc.
| > Visual interest is important in attracting people to your site, content
| will
| > keep them coming back.  Yes, there are some instances where the content
is
| > the attractant but for the mainstream user, it also means using all
| elements
| > of the design to influence your customers into staying long enough to
want
| > to return (including shiny objects, if warranted).
| >
| > Shelby Cook
| >
| > > -----Original Message-----
| > > From: bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com [mailto:bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com]
| > > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:01 PM
| > > To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
| > > Subject: RE: annoying websites
| > >
| > >
| > > Actually, they know they have something worthwhile to say and
| > > that they
| > > don't have to lure readers in with a bunch of flashy
| > > gee-gaws.  The WWW was
| > > created to exchange ideas, not to tantalize surfers like a
| > > bunch of babies
| > > staring at shiny objects.
| > >
| > >
| > > -----Original Message-----
| > > From: Hough, Jonathan (TWIi London) [mailto:JHough(at)twii.net]
| > > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 10:05 AM
| > > To: 'Michael Wilson'; 'rudy'; hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
| > > Subject: RE: annoying websites
| > >
| > >
| > > don't you think these jakob nielsens, eric steven raymonds
| > > just promote what
| > > they call useable sites (ie no graphics, backward compliant)
| > > because they
| > > can't actually design?
| > >
|
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