Posted by Jake on 05/07/06 18:37

In message <4mf1j3-2o9.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>, Toby Inkster
<usenet200605@tobyinkster.co.uk> writes
>Jaxtraw wrote:
>
>> What it comes down to- if you have an external link on your site and you're
>> keen to hang onto the person clicking it, do a target="_blank"
>
>OK, so you've done that; now the user comes along, clicks on your link and
>decides she doesn't like the page that you linked to, so she wants to go
>back to your site. She clicks the "Back" button on her browser tool bar:
>nothing happens. She clicks it again: still nothing. She is confused, but
>still hasn't found what she was looking for, so clicks on the "Home"
>button on the toolbar to get to Yahoo search. She searches; she finds your
>competitor.
>

Or:

OK, so you've done that; now the user comes along, clicks on your link
and
>decides she doesn't like the page that you linked to, so she wants to
go
>back to your site.

So she clicks on the little 'x' in the top-right corner and
lo-and-behold she's back on the very page she wanted.

She can do this because she's spent more than 20 minutes on the Web and
is far from confused ;-)



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