Posted by dorayme on 04/27/06 06:21

In article <uhW3g.5206$mu2.3009@newssvr24.news.prodigy.net>,
Jose <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com> wrote:

> > What do you mean what would I state? I have to have some _other_
> > simple-minded generality?
>
> Well, I thought so. True, life is complex and there are exceptions
> everywhere, but as a general rule, it seems reasonable to me that a well
> designed home page should be easy to figure out and navigate, and it
> should be easy to know what's up.
>
> I don't know about "four seconds", but if I take that as an allegory for
> "pretty quickly", I'd agree.
>
> You don't? What part, and why?
>

Just noticed that I am posting to 2 groups at once on this one. I
don't much like this, I get easily confused, not because of
worries about etiquette ( I don't fully understand this ethical
minefield?). And I did not initiate this. I will just stay here
on this one and try to remember to delete other groups that
appear at the top of who to post to in my newsreader.

Now, about your question. If you are happy to remove the 4
seconds and have "pretty quickly" then you will have no big
argument with me for perhaps the majority of sites. But I don't
like too much railroading. I want that folk should leave room for
imagination, for the value of bewilderment, puzzlement. I am
truly fed up with the monstrous freight train of thought that
everything has to be obvious, quick, even in outline.

There are some people who do not like reading a book that is
puzzling (in quite fundamental ways) to fathom from the start.
But not all folk are like this. There can be sites that are
enticing at first without being in so meaningful, they become so
as one persists and there is no 4 secs or even "pretty quickly"
about it. If all you madmen out there <g>, are busy catching
trains or running along like the crazy rabbit in Alice in
Wonderland with an alarm clock in your hands, crying "I'm late,
I'm late, it's half past eight..." ... well, just go catch your
train, will you....

--
dorayme

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