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Posted by Chris Tomlinson on 07/07/06 21:24
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0607072028200.8838@ppepc87.ph.gla.ac.uk...
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Chris Tomlinson wrote:
>
>> We appreciate your thoughts, but over 80% of a random selection of
>> people felt it was a good idea in our market research.
>
> Say what you will about Jakob Nielsen (and I know that many designers
> pour scorn on his own hair-shirt web page design), but at least he has
> the sense to produce actual working designs and try them out on
> prospective users, watching them to see how usable the designs are,
> rather than merely asking them "in a vacuum" whether they thought it
> might be "a good idea". You don't /really/ expect random selections of
> people to recognise that, in web terms, you're erecting a pointless
> obstacle course that does nothing to promote the (presumed) aim of
> selling stuff? I'd say you've received a much clearer answer on that
> account from the contributors to this group - too bad that you're
> already beyond the clue horizon.
This isn't meant as offence, but the site isn't targeted to the select group
of CSS, HTML, JS, etc. programmers found in this one group. That is why we
did
not ask earlier for feedback on the site, and have never asked in this
thread. We only asked "Specify loading order of JPGs?" :-S
Our research goes much further than you have bothered to ask about.
The site is as much about tourism and offering people the chance to walk
down famous streets they may never get to see in real life as anything else.
It achieves this in a load time of 5-12 seconds on the slowest broadband
connections the site is designed for and will be marketed at. If that is
insulting to you or gets you all excited, so be it. We can live with that.
> Indeed, you've already made it clear that you started asking late,
> after you'd already dug yourself into this hole. But there's a slight
> chance that others might stand to learn something from what you're
> doing.
Very strange comments, but we will leave you to it and agree to disagree.
Good luck with other new visitors to this group. Hopefully you may welcome
them a bit more positively.
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Thanks,
Me
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