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fleur
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? %age who scroll down past 1st screen ? - 2/26/2004 5:56:28
Hi all
I'm interested in finding out from as many of you as possible whether you tend to scroll down the home page to see past the 1st screen.
The reason is I have a dilemma with my website - not sure how to position the info or how to fit more on 1st screen you see!
In case you're curious, the URL is http://www.ChangeFacilitators.com
Thanks for all your feedback, on this and any other bits you'd like to comment on 
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Mike54
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RE: ? %age who scroll down past 1st screen ? - 2/26/2004 7:01:34
I for one have no problem scrolling past the "1st screen" but not too far. 2 screens are OK and maybe 3 if it's interesting but not much more than that. I'd rather have a new page. The page in your link seemed OK to me and you might be able to squeeze a little more into it. MHOO
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RE: ? %age who scroll down past 1st screen ? - 2/26/2004 11:57:22
ditto on Mike. I will scroll two screens normally.
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Can you tell me what MHOO means please?
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RE: ? %age who scroll down past 1st screen ? - 2/27/2004 18:11:06
Brian is completely correct as is Mike. What I suggest you do (it is what I do) is look at it on a laptop and use the pagedown key. Two pagedowns fine, as Mike says above three is mostly ok. Anything more than that and I trim the text like crazy.
Liberal use of return to top links are helpful too :-)
(Nice site btw but text size is a bit small. I'd go for .95em or 1em in your style sheet if I were you. Slightly OT here but as I've said this so often in the css forum I sdon't think anyone'll mind. I Don't use pixels because anybody looking on a Mac gets fonts about ¾ the size a PC user sees them at. Just a detail but its the devil's own job sometimes getting that one right by trial and error. Using em or % means that you the visitors prefernce come into play automatically.)
Here's a sample to show what I mean:
body {
color: rgb(34,70,79);
background-color: rgb(171,195,172);
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 78%; /* takes care of that horrid font size scaling bug in MSIE */
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#side-bar {
font-size: 95%;
text-align: right;
width: 10em;
float: left;
clear: left;
}
.sideBarTitle {
color: rgb(34,70,79);
background-color: rgb(205,219,205);
font-size: 100%;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 0;
padding: 0.5ex 1em 0.5ex 0.5ex;
border-top: 1px solid rgb(34,70,79);
}
p {
font-size: 1em;
margin: 1em 0 1.5em 0;
padding: 0;
}
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BeTheBall
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RE: ? %age who scroll down past 1st screen ? - 2/27/2004 18:57:10
I concur with everyone else. By no means is it too long and you could probably lenghten it a little without any problem. Looking at the content, this jumped out at me, "Moving Your Organisation from Good to GREAT!" Is it "Organisation" in the UK as opposed to "Organization"?
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RE: ? %age who scroll down past 1st screen ? - 2/28/2004 7:34:52
can you do this in netscape?
Yes! (and mozilla and firefox) ctrl and the plus and minus keys (well not - and + at the same time) goes up nicely in increments much better than i.e. in opera it works more like total page zoom, images text , everything gets the zoom treatment. the bonus of moz and firefox is that it will resize text that ie can't unless the style sheet is set up really badly!
you also don't ever get the incredible shrinking text either that you often get in IE.
of course you can also legitimately spell organise with a 'z' instead, i think one is the oxford spelling and the other is favoured by cambridge (the 'ise' possibly being cambridge one but can't remember)
personally i always go for the -ise one because it's more british without any overtones of american. afterall i like our bastardised language the way it is ;)
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