[Sigia-l] Info on splash pages and flash movie intros

[Chris Chandler]

Bruce,

On almost all of the content based sites I've worked on, the site
statistics show that around 1/4 and 1/3 of the people who view one page,
never make it to a second page.

Personally, I want to maximize the chances that someone will see what
they're looking for when they come to the site, and I think an Intro
works against that.

-cc



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Knight" <jknight at email.arizona.edu>
To: "Bruce Morrison" <bruce at designit.com.au>
Cc: <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Info on splash pages and flash movie intros


> Bruce Morrison wrote:
>
> >I know they are bad and why but is anyone aware of any studies or
statistics that relate to how users deal with them.
> >
> You might look at the book "Skip Intro: Flash Usability and Interface
> Design" by Duncan McAlester and Michelangelo Capraro.
> There's a review of it in Communication Arts magazine. Jan/Feb 2003.
V.
> 44, Issue 8. p.143.
> Unfortunately I have no idea what it says as I haven't seen the
magazine
> or the book, I just had a note of it handy.
> Jan
>
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