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TC
I'm looking for opinions on ways to show visitors, your links will send
them off-site (to another website). The following was suggested:

Look at the three links under the third paragraph:
http://www.countryrode.com/sales/vespaline.php
Note the tooltip when hovering the graphic as well.

Personally, I have not seen these. Are they really needed? Do users
care they are being directed off your site?
Nov 23 '05 #1
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TC wrote:
I'm looking for opinions on ways to show visitors, your links will send
them off-site (to another website). The following was suggested:

Look at the three links under the third paragraph:
http://www.countryrode.com/sales/vespaline.php
Note the tooltip when hovering the graphic as well.

Personally, I have not seen these. Are they really needed? Do users
care they are being directed off your site?


Besides my countryrode.com site, you should have also mentioned
Wikipedia.org
"Off-site" graphic in the link under the picture of the spider mite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Technology

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer
Nov 23 '05 #2
In our last episode,
<4u************ *****@tornado.t ampabay.rr.com> ,
the lovely and talented TC
broadcast on comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets:
I'm looking for opinions on ways to show visitors, your links will send
them off-site (to another website). The following was suggested:


What browser doesn't show the user where a link goes?

--
Lars Eighner us****@larseigh ner.com http://www.larseighner.com/
War on Terrorism: Treat Viewers like Mushrooms
"It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in
Afghanistan." -Walter Isaacson, _CNN_
Nov 23 '05 #3
TC
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
TC wrote:
I'm looking for opinions on ways to show visitors, your links will
send them off-site (to another website). The following was
suggested:

Look at the three links under the third paragraph:
http://www.countryrode.com/sales/vespaline.php
Note the tooltip when hovering the graphic as well.

Personally, I have not seen these. Are they really needed? Do users
care they are being directed off your site?


Besides my countryrode.com site, you should have also mentioned
Wikipedia.org
"Off-site" graphic in the link under the picture of the spider mite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Technology


Oh now that's interesting. These don't actually send you to another
site. They are used for editing?
Nov 23 '05 #4
TC
Lars Eighner wrote:
In our last episode,
<4u************ *****@tornado.t ampabay.rr.com> ,
the lovely and talented TC
broadcast on comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets:
I'm looking for opinions on ways to show visitors, your links will
send them off-site (to another website). The following was
suggested:


What browser doesn't show the user where a link goes?


A visual indicator that shows the link points off-site, not to another
page within the site.
Nov 23 '05 #5
Lars Eighner wrote:
In our last episode,
<4u************ *****@tornado.t ampabay.rr.com> ,
the lovely and talented TC
broadcast on comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets:
I'm looking for opinions on ways to show visitors, your links will send
them off-site (to another website). The following was suggested:


What browser doesn't show the user where a link goes?


Probably all of them do, in some fashion. The little graphic is just a
visual cue in case the visitor doesn't look at the status bar.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer
Nov 23 '05 #6
TC wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Besides my countryrode.com site, you should have also mentioned
Wikipedia.org
"Off-site" graphic in the link under the picture of the spider mite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Technology


Oh now that's interesting.


You didn't look when I first posted the above? <g>
These don't actually send you to another
site. They are used for editing?


No, not the ones next to "edit". Look at the link for:
http://mems.sandia.gov/scripts/images.asp

David Dorward's site also uses such a graphic indicator:
http://dorward.me.uk/www/css/

As I first said, it's not new; it's just a nice enhancement.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer
Nov 23 '05 #7
TC
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
TC wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Besides my countryrode.com site, you should have also mentioned
Wikipedia.org
"Off-site" graphic in the link under the picture of the spider

mite: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Technology

Oh now that's interesting.


You didn't look when I first posted the above? <g>


I guess not?
These don't actually send you to another
site. They are used for editing?
No, not the ones next to "edit". Look at the link for:
http://mems.sandia.gov/scripts/images.asp

The arrow image and edit link both send me to the same place - edit
screen within the same website.
David Dorward's site also uses such a graphic indicator:
http://dorward.me.uk/www/css/

As I first said, it's not new; it's just a nice enhancement.


Those are even worse LOL. I'm sorry, not trying to be difficult. But
these are not intuitive to me and IMHO, take extra
programming/debugging time, distract the user and serve no real purpose.

Still, I may consider them. I'm not closed minded after all. :)
Nov 23 '05 #8
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Lars Eighner wrote:
In our last episode,
<4u************ *****@tornado.t ampabay.rr.com> ,
the lovely and talented TC
broadcast on comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets:
I'm looking for opinions on ways to show visitors, your links will
send them off-site (to another website). The following was
suggested:


What browser doesn't show the user where a link goes?


Ones which permit the deezyner to scribble in their status area?

IMHO it does get rather tiresome, the way that some hyperactive
deezyners manage to sabotage just about any feature which users have
come to expect (one could mention marking the position of the focus,
marking links as visited, displaying target URLs in the status area,
the expected behaviour of the browser's Back function, etc.), and then
start looking for "exciting" new ways of duplicating the same
functionality, in ways which the user *isn't* expecting, and would
have to learn afresh for each new site they visit.

But, on the other hand, I don't really see any harm in using a little
icon which distinguishes between target pages for which the author or
site still has responsibility, and those which are out of their
control. It's not something that I fuss about myself, but it's OK by
me if others want it.

Neither the single nor the double north-east arrow are in WGL4, but
they're fairly commonly available in recent fonts I think, and Lynx (I
tried 2.8.5dev7) has a reasonable fallback at least for the first, so
if you use an img, alt="↗" for those north-east-arrow icon
graphics.
Nov 23 '05 #9
TC wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
TC wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Besides my countryrode.com site, you should have also mentioned
Wikipedia.org
"Off-site" graphic in the link under the picture of the spider

mite: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Technology

Oh now that's interesting.


You didn't look when I first posted the above? <g>


I guess not?
These don't actually send you to another
site. They are used for editing?


No, not the ones next to "edit". Look at the link for:
http://mems.sandia.gov/scripts/images.asp


The arrow image and edit link both send me to the same place - edit
screen within the same website.


The sandia.gov link just below the words
"as small as several atoms wide. Credit SNL"
Clicking on it takes me to the mems.sandia.gov page with more spider
mite pictures.

I realize they use the same two-headed arrow for all their "edit" links
as well; don't know why.
David Dorward's site also uses such a graphic indicator:
http://dorward.me.uk/www/css/

As I first said, it's not new; it's just a nice enhancement.


Those are even worse LOL. I'm sorry, not trying to be difficult. But
these are not intuitive to me and IMHO, take extra
programming/debugging time, distract the user and serve no real
purpose.


I think they are kinda cute! <g>
Still, I may consider them. I'm not closed minded after all. :)


Best way to be.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer
Nov 23 '05 #10

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