[WEB4LIB] Pop Up pages

[HTheyer]

Think carefully about why you want a pop-up window.  They are very annoying
unless they are needed for some technical or information reason.  I find
Amazon's new pop-up boxes annoying to the extreme, now to the point that
Amazon has been bumped way down my "list" of resources to check.  Many
people may have pop-up windows disabled because they tend to be ads.

Hillary Theyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tasmin R. Mills" <tmills at lawrence.lib.ks.us>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 6:01 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Pop Up pages


> Hello,
>
> I am interested in putting together an pop-up intro page for our users on
> the public access machines. This page would have our library Internet
> policy and/or other information and an agree or don't agree button.  I
know
> that this can be done with visual basic, but are there other tools or
> programming languages that I could use?  I need a boost in the right
> direction.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
>
> trm
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>
> Tasmin R. Mills
> Technology Coordinator
> Lawrence Public Library
> 707 Vermont Street
> Lawrence, KS 66049
>
> 785-843-3833, ext 106
> 785-843-3833, ext 124 (voice)
> 785-843-3688, (FAX)
>