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10/21/2001 Entry: "21-October-2001 -- WebWord Comment"

WebWord Comment -- Several people have asked me why the weblog links on the left hand side of the WebWord home page were removed. The most simple is that I did not removed the links, I just moved them. I plan on making substantial changes to WebWord's Hot Web Sites page. I've moved the links to the other weblogs to that page. I'm going to add more resources that page, and I am going to make it more of a usability portal. I don't have room make these changes and additions on the Webword home page.

Replies: 8 comments

Not having them on the homepage still makes webword less valuable for me to visit daily.

Posted by Peter @ 10/21/2001 01:35 PM EST

come on Peter... it is one click more. Give John a chance. Maybe you will like what he is working on right now ;-)

Posted by sebastian @ 10/22/2001 04:04 AM EST

Please don't poo-poo Peter's point. Users who use WebWord as a mini-portal (starting page) to the web sites they visit daily will consider an extra click to be highly disruptive.

Posted by JS @ 10/22/2001 11:36 AM EST

ok... good point. What about setting a bookmark to the link page? ... and there you have your jump page again ;-)

Posted by sebastian @ 10/22/2001 02:58 PM EST

Bookmarks are the great unspoken failure of the Internet. Most people do not know how to, or do not take the time to, organize their bookmarks. Thus, people who have been around for any length of time have an unwieldly long list of bookmarks that are unusable. This is not to mention the many people who do not know bookmarks exist or do not know how to add a bookmark (and whose only bookmarks are the ones other people have set for them).

Ooops, but we're talking about WebWord users. Ummm, why would I prefer *two* bookmarks instead of *one*? I would much prefer getting both resources on the same page instead of having to add yet another bookmark and load a second page every day when before I only visited one.

Posted by JS @ 10/23/2001 08:09 AM EST

Has the website list been removed in order to ensure that traffic remains longer at (and reads what is on) Webword's homepage ?

Posted by Frank Gaine @ 10/23/2001 11:31 AM EST

Has the website list been removed in order to ensure that traffic remains longer at (and reads what is on) Webword's homepage ?

Posted by Frank Gaine @ 10/23/2001 11:32 AM EST

I agree with Peter 100%: "Not having them on the homepage still makes webword less valuable for me to visit daily." It's a clear case of what I call "A Click Too Far." If they're sitting there right next to the fresh WebWord content du jour, they add a lot of value and make WebWord into a portal for me. On another page, they don't.

John's too smart to have removed them to try to keep more traffic at WW, so I'm not sure what the reasoning is, really. But I hope he puts them back. I'd hate to drop WebWord from my daily rounds.

Posted by Steve Krug @ 10/23/2001 11:55 AM EST

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