[806] in IS Home Pages
Highlighting new information on Web pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Fizz)
Thu Oct 21 14:38:45 1999
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:38:37 -0400
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From: Robyn Fizz <fizz@MIT.EDU>
>To: Kris Nyzio <knyzio@MIT.EDU>
>Cc: cwis-help@MIT.EDU
>Reply-To: cwis-help@MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: 2 questions
>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:10:19 -0400
>From: Jag Patel <jag@MIT.EDU>
> If you continually have new stuff on a page, a section saying
> "What's New to this Site" might be useful, or even dating links
> (added/updated on 10/15/99). We do not recommend using graphics to
> call things out, since it is yet another code you have to use on
> the web. The answer ends up being "it depends", because we'd have
> to see what you were trying to do on the site.
>--Jag.
>
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>>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:48:56 -0400
>>To: Kris Nyzio <knyzio@mit.edu>
>>From: "Deborah A. Levinson" <debby@MIT.EDU>
>>Subject: Re: 2 questions-followup
>>Hi Kris,
>>We don't have a preferred way of alerting people to new
>>information, other than recommending that they not make it blink ;-)
>>You can use "new" icons, or you could move the recent information to
>>the top of the page and call it out with copy (like "New this week").
>>You may also come up with other ideas, but those are the two that
>>spring to mind.
>>
>>--debby
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