Parallel Dialup/broadband site?

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Andy Asberry

Those who would visit my livestock association sites are about evenly
divided dialup/broadband. I'm thinking perhaps I should have a simple
home page where the user could make a selection according to his
connection speed.

My rationale is that broadband users expect more illustration and
interaction. It would also make it easier to sell page sponsorship
ads.

Thoughts/experience please?
 
Why would dial-up users expect illustration and interaction?
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| Those who would visit my livestock association sites are about evenly
| divided dialup/broadband. I'm thinking perhaps I should have a simple
| home page where the user could make a selection according to his
| connection speed.
|
| My rationale is that broadband users expect more illustration and
| interaction. It would also make it easier to sell page sponsorship
| ads.
|
| Thoughts/experience please?
 
Correction: should be "Why would dial-up users expect *less* illustration
and interaction?
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Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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http://www.frontpagemvps.com/

About FrontPage 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
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| Why would dial-up users expect illustration and interaction?
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| Tom [Pepper] Willett
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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| FrontPage Support:
| http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
|
| About FrontPage 2003:
| http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
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| || Those who would visit my livestock association sites are about evenly
|| divided dialup/broadband. I'm thinking perhaps I should have a simple
|| home page where the user could make a selection according to his
|| connection speed.
||
|| My rationale is that broadband users expect more illustration and
|| interaction. It would also make it easier to sell page sponsorship
|| ads.
||
|| Thoughts/experience please?
|
|
 
Because they want pages that load faster?

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Correction: should be "Why would dial-up users expect *less* illustration
and interaction?
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It is not that they expect less. They just cannot use more. I don't
have any hard evidence other than my own experience.

I lived in a city of 400,000 and could not get DSL. They were just
getting digital cable when I moved. 26.4k was the fastest dialup. An
email attachment better be small at that speed. Videos were out also.
Forget about downloading software. It was upsetting to click a link to
a page that had more than one photo. Waiting, waiting...

Surprisingly, out in the country, I now have 1.2meg wireless. For the
first few months, I was like a starving person. I was amazed at what I
had been missing. I couldn't surf and read enough. Heck, I saved half
the WWW. :)

It is like the question of "What screen size should I design for?" The
answer is the same. Cater to the most users. In my case, that is
dialup. But I can offer more to those who can utilize it.

I was curious what others had experienced.
 
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