Re: Front Pages

At 03:42 p.m. 08/28/98 -0400, MIchael Channing wilson wrote:
>Hey, when I walk in Barnes & Noble I am there to buy a book, but it's
>the covers that draw me to a specific one if I am just checking out
>books in general.

And typically on the web, it's not the cover page at all that
draws you to a site, but the listing in a search engine or other
directory.  The _banner ads_ are the equivalents of covers!  Not
the "cover pages".

>I have turned away from many sites with crappy first
>pages.

So what you're saying, if you're a web designer, include a cover
page, so Michael can leave without even seeing what you've got
to offer.

Which is my whole point -- all a splash page does is give users
ANOTHER opportunity to leave your site; it _doesn't_ draw them in
at _all_.  That simply doesn't happen.

[BTW, if you're getting compliments on your splash page, you
really have to take into account that the only people who _can_
write to you about it, are the people who _will_ endure the
meaningless splash page.  Those who won't -- they won't even put
up with getting into your site, so they certainly won't write
you about it!]

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