| In the old days of the Internet (1995) people said | | | | stop button faster than you cansay "long download" |
| thephrase "build it and they will come" | | | | Design your site as if it is a portal or searchengine. |
| This has changed however.. with more and more sites | | | | Portals have dealt with huge volumes oftraffic and |
| onthe net you have to do something that will | | | | have done their research. It's the cheapway to do |
| attractpeople. I have found some things that have | | | | market research.... my college professoronce told me |
| worked. | | | | that if I were to open a store.. choose alocation right |
| Look at all the largest sites on the Internet. Yahoo, | | | | next to a new McDonald's. In order forthe McDonald's |
| Altavista, Lycos, and Jayde you will see | | | | to be built a invest a serious amountof money for |
| somethingvery similar with them. There is hardly any | | | | market research is spent.. how muchtraffic does the |
| advancedgraphics or Javascripts on these sites. It is | | | | street get.. how close is it tobusinesses (the people on |
| verystraight forward with simple text based menu | | | | their lunch break have verylittle time for lunch and have |
| withsimple compressed graphics. | | | | a tendency to eat fastfood) |
| I will use Yahoo as a example. It is the Largest siteon | | | | Trust me when I say that Yahoo or Altavista does |
| the Internet in terms of traffic. The site layoutis VERY | | | | theirresearch. Their livelihood depends on how |
| straightforward with no moving graphics or | | | | theirvisitor reacts to their site. They measure |
| Javascript. This is something that people should | | | | clickthrough from the main site to other areas.. they |
| notewhen designing a site. GRAPHICS TAKE TIME | | | | evenmeasure the spacing and the fonts to make sure |
| TO | | | | itappeals to their massive audience as well as |
| DOWNLOAD! | | | | designtheir site for the least amount of bandwidth |
| When I visit a graphic intensive site I might take thetime | | | | traffic. |
| to wait until the download is complete if thegraphics | | | | They don't want to slow down their site. So theirsite is |
| are really cool... but trust me.. the secondtime I go to | | | | VERY efficient. |
| the site (if there would be a secondtime) I will hit that | | | | |