17wil said:
errr...its pretty useless to argue abt this.
but, just my own 2 cents. what cud possibly be so mysterious for u not to scroll down? pornographic adverts?
this is a Singaporean site la :lol:
the reason is very simple. but since we have gone so far, let me explain from user point of view.
when people open
www.soft.com.sg in the browser, the first thing they see is that big picture. it takes a while for a user to figure out that the picture does nothing but to wait for you to click in order to enter the website. by doing this, they lose their patience by 15 points.
after they click, they are now redirected to a new link called
http://soft.com.sg/2006. what they see is a blank white box right in the middle of their screen. for 90% of the user, the blank white box implies "there is nothing here", it implies that simply because there is indeed nothing there. they lose their patience again by another 15 points.
there is nowhere implies that there are something in the bottom of the screen. the only useful thing in the page is a directory in the left side. the directory is quite long with 18 items. it takes a while again to read them through. luckly they find a "forums" item there. but their patience is damanged again by 30 points.
90% of users will quickly follow the link and jump into the forum, because their patience is only 40 points left. once they are inside the forum, they scroll up and down and down and up from head to toe and toe to head. but there is no way to find any adv/buy/sell section any more, because it does not exist in the forum.
10% of the users may scoll down the home page by 1 page but what they see is the "Latest Discussions@S.O.F.T. Forum" section. it's quite long and again there is no direction showing there is anything important further below. they patience is damaged again by another 30 points. why they scroll down further again when their patience is only 10 points left? for the sake of scrolling down? huh? so they click the link and jump into forums where they are perminant lost in finding buy/sell.
it's really very simple. just ask you bother or sister or parents to visit the site and you observe from beside to see what will happen...see if they can find the buy/sell. by the way, please dont blame them for lazy...