What is interesting is reading someones comments and perceptions on how to build a website.
There really is no one way to build a site. Every site should be built according to it’s needs and purposes. While I will never personally use FontPage to build a site, I also will never build a site that ‘requires’ Front Page either (and here is my personal note/jab….if your site is using Front Page, get out of the 90s and get into some real website development) If Dreamweaver scares you (in either usage or price), then get into WordPress. Easy(at least significantly easier than Dreamweaver) to use and free.
When people come to my site, I want them to keep that site open as long as possible. If I reference another site, I want it just as that…a reference. If you are interested, click on the link and it’ll open in a new tab/window but my site stays on your screen. I use a nice little HTML tag target="_blank". This is what tells the web browser to open the link I referenced in a new window.
So, back to some Neanderthal thoughts of stupid web designers.
using the tag to force a link to open in a new window breaks the Back button.
Huh??? It doesn’t break anything. See, it’s comments like this that will confuse web developers because they are so narrow sighted.
When you first open your web browser, the back button doesn’t work. The reason is the back button simply is part of your browsing history. A NEW browser opened has no history. Not a broken back button. What is the point in using FUD when describing simple web browsing fundamentals?
What I really don’t like is the condescending tone this clown also puts forth in the form that all other web users are dumb.
This is incredibly confusing, even for me, and I’ve been using the web for 10 years
(Emphasis mine)
So, tell me. Would you hire a web designer who gets confused over new windows opening after having ‘10 years’ of experience on the web? I thought not.
Now, let’s get up to modern times shall we? Just about every major web browser is using tabbed-browsing now. Given the amount of information overload that is the world today, tabbed browsing is the saviour for tracking all our travels and pages. Let’s say you are browsing the latest topic….oh, I don’t know….like ‘stupid web designers‘ and 1/4 of the way down the article there is a link referenced. You click on the link to check out the whole article (and hopefully form your own opinion). And in said article there is another link to some other information which you wanted to check out. That article then leads to another, then another and then another. Soon you are 25 articles/websites away from where you started. You seriously gonna hit the BACK button to come back here? Really? Gee, I wonder if opening the link in a new TAB would be of use now?
What is sad is that the website referenced is ‘copyright 2002′. What the hell is 10 year old information still doing on the web? This site should be archived, or at least have a big honking sign that sys “THIS SITE CONTAINS INFORMATION THAT IS 90% OUTDATED.“. I mean, would you go to your doctors website and see that he was still proliferating the user of Bloodletting?
Friends don’t let friends user Front Page.
