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	I have to concur.  What happened when we first set up the Web page
was that we got a lot of people saying they couldn't find the page. We
took care of that by saying on the first page, in parentheses, "(Please
scroll, or hit space bar to view stories)."  We never had any problems
after that.  But it is an observable phenomnenon that people who see one
page of a document that requires them to scroll will often think that the
one page is the whole document. 

Best,

Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com:9999


On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Christopher Harper wrote:

> In case anyone else is interested in that exciting subject of scrolling,
> Jakob 
> Nielsen of Sun responded with some good data.  Here it is:
> 
> > The results are *very* consistent across multiple usability studies
> > of different kinds of users accessing different kinds of websites:
> > almost no users scroll beyond the information that is visible when
> > a webpage first comes up. The exception is when people actually
> > start reading a page. But when they are navigating, all their options
> > *must* be presented on the top screenful of the page.
> > 

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Subject: Re: Shea and AR and yawn From: Joe Shea  Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT)
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