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The pop-ups I've been talking about are
involuntary ones. The visitor has no control over them. But what about voluntary pop-ups? You know, you click on a small picture and a window opens up with a larger image of that picture. Or you click on a word or service and a window opens up explaining word or service. Now, you're dealing with something that visitors absolutely love. You have given them back control they want, and removed annoyance they hate. It makes using your site easy, your site is more informative and visitors will stay longer.
When designing these voluntary pop-up windows be sure to make them a convenient size, so they don't take over whole screen, and make them easy to close. You can have text, or a button, in window that lets people close it, or they can use X on top right of window. Again, you want to give visitors easy control over how they interact with your site.
Replace your pop-ups, or planned pop-ups, with page design that will guide your visitors to where you want them to go. Giving your visitors a pleasant experience on your site is an incentive to stay longer and come back often, which is what you want.
http://www.CreativeCauldron.com Jeff Colburn is a website designer and writer. His goal is to make process of creating or updating your website easy and simple for you, while creating a website that meets all your needs and expectations. Jeff can also create all of copy for your website.
To see a sample of Jeff's work go to The Creative Cauldron. It's an award winning site filled with information for writers, photographers, artists and other creative people.
Copyright 2004 Jeff Colburn
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