Getting Involved
The Gracywoods neighborhood group is shaping up nicely. We had a fairly productive meeting last night. I'm involved with the website/communications committee and have started off by registering gracywoods.org and setting up an initial page. I plan to be involved on the technical side and let the creative types come up with design and content.
I hope that the group manages to gain and sustain momentum. It seems that most neighborhood groups/sites lose steam after a couple of years, atrophy and die off. That would be a shame and I hope we can avoid it. We definitely have some people who know how to run a meeting and organize things (yours truly very much excluded).
Personally, I am not suited group leadership like that. You gotta know where you strengths lie and for me it's not in organization. Plus all that committee lingo makes me feel like some Party Functionary -- it's weird to be in a meeting where people talk without geek speak or references to Office Space.
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Step, you really should use the [target="_blank"] for your links!!
No he shouldn't. I hate clicking on a link and have it open up in a new window. It's easier to get back to the original website through the backspace key if the link opens in the same window. Also, by not using "target=" I can choose to open in a new window if I need to...the choice isn't forced on me.
I didn't realize one could get so ridiculous so early in one's pregnancy!!!
I am much less likely to go to the originating page once moved to a new page...If I clicked on the link it's likely because I wanted to explore that particular site without worrying about losing my place in the original site.
As in the case, I was interested in viewing and playing around in the link site.It's much easier to close a window then to track back to a page you viewed 6, 7 or 9 pages ago.
By opening in a new window, I can keep the originating window open. The choice to leave that page isn't forced upon me.
I believe in letting the user decide whether to open a link in the same location, a new window or new tab. I can configure my browser to open links by default in the same window (my preference), a new window or a tab.
It bugs me when I go to a site which takes away my choice and dictates to me that links open in a new window. Maybe they think I'm not capable of deciding for myself or that I'll get confused by having to use the back button. Maybe they think their content is so precious that it shouldn't be replaced with someone else's content. Maybe they think that target="_blank" makes their readers less likely to abandone their site. I do not know, nor do I care. I just get bugged.
And apparently I'm not the only one who thinks that way: see here and target = _blank = annoying and here and target="_blank" and Opening New Browser Windows and even in German: hier und target=_blank ist out!. Ja?
There is a place and time for opening new windows (for example from within fixed-sized popup windows), but clicking on a link from one regular page to another regular page ain't it.