attention is the world's scarcest resource
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on September 29, 2001 at 18:51:31:
In reply to: Thanks Denise....WAITING FOR ALL OF YOU THOUGH..PLEASE (n/t) posted by Noli on September 29, 2001 at 18:13:24:
Honestly ... anything that makes me sit and wait for java or slowloading just plain doesn't happen. I have a better connection at my
university office (and more time to waste), so I sit around and wait
for such things there. At home ... phone line time is at a premium,
and "java" or "be patient while loading" translates as "move on!".
It's a beautiful page, but if it's a slow loader, I can't wait around
for it. Somone in the house will be yelling for the phone line.
This is all part of what I try to bang into my students' heads in one
of the classes I teach. Attention is the scarcest resource in the
universe. If you can't get people's attention and get your message
across in a 3 seconds flat ... no matter what you have to say, it'll
never be heard.
Tripod, Geocities, Angelfire ... I don't even go there because the
java ad load crashes my home connection half the time, and the pop up
and pop back ads are too much of a nuisance. Can you make your site
both beautiful and fast?
Fast is first ... if you can do fast and elegant, fantastic!
Follow Ups
- I hope the problem will be fixed soon!
Noli 01:01:17 9/30/2001
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