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[MacLuv]

[Jason]

Originally posted by MacLuv
I've seen some good web installations that use this as a feature...

you are wrong

im not saying vertical scroll is bad, im saying that the content of the page that is important needs to be visable to users right when they open a page...

but this is just my opinion

[MacLuv]

[MacLuv]

[Jason]

Originally posted by MacLuv
Uh huh.

Why should all the content be visable?

You must be using that Apple one-click mouse and you h8 scrolling, right?

Um... well, there aren't any set rules about this, but I totally know where you're coming from.

I often like to see sites that stretch the boundaries of conventional web design. If one scrolls to the bottom of the page becuase it's put together badly, yes, I agree with you about scrolling, but if it's the artists/designers intention to have the user scroll down then so be it.

well im very much into designing for the user... with the user in mind, most users like to see what they need to see right away, and then after that find others things...

so if you want users to see something, do you put it at a bottom of a page that 1600 pixels long?

to me its common sense, im not saying scrolling is bad and shouldnt be used at all, thats stupid, im just saying that you want to have most of anything important visible to the user when they open the page, its like a front page of a news paper... they put what they want people to see on the front

but hey maybe im the only one that thinks like this

[MacLuv]

[Trip]

I'm not "taking sides" here, and I'm not going to state my official opinion on this subject either but:

The user couldn't give a **** if they have to scroll down two clicks or not. It kind of goes along with the topic of setting a pre-defined resolution for your website. For example: if you're designing a webpage in Photoshop under a resolution of 2000x1700 you'll see your page a lot differently than somebody with say a resolution of 800x600. So let's say you decide to set your resolution to 800x600 and make the website, but then what happens to the users with resolutions over 1026x768?

Now so you, and I, can sleep good tonight I'll say this: you can't please everybody. That's the way the world is. Make something so it fits in the average spot and people will view it as above-average. Make something look above-average and it will look awful.

[MacLuv]