Are you influenced by the phrase: 'bookmark this site'?

[Proteus]

I've seen so many websites with this phrase: "bookmark this site".

Some people place it only as a reminder in case that you need to come back again to the site.

Others go beyond that, they add a script to allow you to bookmark the site.

My questions are:
As a visitor, are you specially influenced by this expression?...
Do you believe that this phrase makes you bookmark a site?...

Personally that expression doesn't influence in myself. But I would add it in my sites as a reminder, specially when the URL is long or hard to remember. I believe that if visitors find the site content really interesting they will come back or bookmark it by themselves.

Please, let me know your opinions. Thanks!

Victor.

[robinev]

I agree. I don't think I've ever clicked a "bookmark this site" link, and I've been using the web since it started. It's far easier in current browsers to add the bookmark (or "favorites") using the browser's menu command which also allows me to organize the bookmark into an appropriate folder.

I think, in fact, I'm probably less likely to bookmark a site that advises me to do so.

[webado]

I agree. I don't think I've ever clicked a "bookmark this site" link, and I've been using the web since it started. It's far easier in current browsers to add the bookmark (or "favorites") using the browser's menu command which also allows me to organize the bookmark into an appropriate folder.

I think, in fact, I'm probably less likely to bookmark a site that advises me to do so.
I agree, though I have the script for it myself on one site. Personally I think I might be worried the script may be malicious LOL!

[JWJ]

Same here. I will often add things I like into my favourites but I will NEVER click on "Bookmark this site". I'm not even sure it acts as a reminder for most people. A person either wants to keep a link back or they don't.

Shooting off at a tangent slightly, I would LOVE easy to use online favourites. I bounce between my home and office computers and often wish to return to a site I added into favourites on 'the other' PC. I began to solve this problem myself by starting a "Links for me" page on my web site, but I got fed up of forever editing and uploading it. It solves the problem, but not easily.

I can't be alone with this requirement and I would have thought it quite easy to provide for any half-decent resource site, but I've never seen it. Now I will get inundated with 3 million links to this exact facility proving yet again that I just roam around the net with my eyes closed :D

[Arne]

Come to think about it, I can't remember if I ever bookmarked a site with that kind of link or "reminder". But I have bookmarked a lot of sites in my days :D

[geekgirl]

Hi all,
Like most of you I have been using the internet for many years, and have never used the 'bookmark' from a site, I always add it myself because then you can put it in the relevant folder with a name you are more likely to remember it by.

If I want to remember a link that I have bookmarked on one of my other computers I email myself, probably not the 'way' to do it, but it works for me. :)

Cheers.

[motorwatchercounter]

It doesn't influence me seeing this on a site. I only use this function when I want to keep the page/site.

Any functions that allow quick processes can't hurt, can they? Things like a click for a print friendly page. Assuming the functions do what they say.

Also I understand the thought process on malious scripts but any of these can be generated by an onload, onhover/mouse over, or menu link command.

I have this function on my site. In IE 6, at least, it allows you rename or pick a folder before adding.

[webado]

True, malicious scripts can be in anything., unseen and unheard.

Last night I had the pleasure of experiencing Windows XP SP2 security paranoia at work, on a friend's computer. The settings were factory settings, the thing having come with the OS pre-installed, including SP2. Lovely. Poor girl could get into almost no sites. I couldn't get to any of my sites from it, it would just display a page or server not found. Checking from an older pc she has on the same internet connection, running W2K, all sites were accessible with no problem. I have to go back today and see what the heck's going on there. Not having taken part in installing XP & SP2 on her machine, I don't know what configration was used, so it will be a lot of groping in the dark, as I'm not conversant with all this stuff.

Weird and annoying and counter-productive.

[motorwatchercounter]

I loaded SP2 a couple of months ago direct from the windows site. no problems but I can understand why they offer a CD (well to the US anyway).

They used to be called fixes now service packs. Spin eh!!!

[JWJ]

... so it will be a lot of groping in the dark, as I'm not conversant with all this stuff.
Go on ... you jest, surely :lol:

[motorwatchercounter]

I powered up one of my old laptops yesterday. So old it doesn't have USB or a CD. 10" screen running win98 and a PCMCIA 56k modem. The battery was dead so it thought it was 2003.

Scary.

At least it reminded me of page load speed and using %ages for width.

[webado]

... so it will be a lot of groping in the dark, as I'm not conversant with all this stuff.
Go on ... you jest, surely :lol:
Well, if you can call cussing the $#^#$%# thing being conversant, then yes, I am so :lol:

[JWJ]

I was more referring to groping in the dark :wink:

[JWJ]

I powered up one of my old laptops yesterday. So old it doesn't have USB or a CD. 10" screen running win98 and a PCMCIA 56k modem. The battery was dead so it thought it was 2003.

Scary.

At least it reminded me of page load speed and using %ages for width.

Oh, I know what you mean. I'm 'cleaning up' an old Pentium 166 to give to a lad at work. Nothing more than a floppy disk drive and a 4.3 Gb hard drive. How on earth did we ever manage, and it was 'state-of-the-art' when I bought it (almost :) ).

[webado]

Wow! at least the hard drive capacity was measured in gigabytes. I have one lying about with 168MB of hard drive space :lol: We used to play a mean game of Tetris or Sokoban on it until quite recently. The screen died, alas, and I've only kept it as a museum piece :lol: It boots up though.... well, I hear the beep :lol:

[Annied]

My questions are:
As a visitor, are you specially influenced by this expression?...
Do you believe that this phrase makes you bookmark a site?...

Victor.

Absolutely not. In fact it downright irritates me when I see it!

[robinev]

I have an Amiga 2000 machine that I haven't plugged in for years, but can't force myself to get rid of. It has a 20 MB hard drive if I remember correctly. At the time, I thought that was huge.

[webado]

My questions are:
As a visitor, are you specially influenced by this expression?...
Do you believe that this phrase makes you bookmark a site?...

Victor.

Absolutely not. In fact it downright irritates me when I see it!

It kind of irritates me too, but not as much as "Make this your home page".

[JWJ]

I don't know how 'universal' they were, but I still have my Sinclair Spectrum (16k) and my Sinclair QL that relied on the dreaded Micro-drives. Wow ... what antiques :)

[webado]

Never heard of those.

Does anybody remember the IBM Jr? Nicknamed 'the peanut ' :? Cca 1980

No harddrive (hadn't been invented yet), no disquette drive (deemed to be unnecessary). All you could do was run a couple of agmes from ROM, written in basic, or you could type in your own little games and run them from ram, but it would all disappear if you changed game or turned the thing off.

The company I used to work for in those days were trying to give some away as a bonus to clients or in a raflle. I don't think they even managed that. :lol:

[Proteus]

So because you are using old computers you don't bookmark a site?... oh well...

[Peg-as-is]

Two things that are guaranteed to turn me off a site are "Bookmark Me" and "Make Me Your Homepage". I consider it conceit of the highest order.

I don't have this forum bookmarked, but I do have my stats page bookmarked. I can get here from there quite nicely.

Peg

[motorwatchercounter]

I don't know how 'universal' they were, but I still have my Sinclair Spectrum (16k) and my Sinclair QL that relied on the dreaded Micro-drives. Wow ... what antiques :)

Some of the Sinclairs (I think the 81 model) came in self assembly form. I can remember looking at the ads in Practical Electronics (I think) in the early '70's.

Bookmark me :wink:

[trackerm]

I hate being treated like an idiot. People who ask me to book mark their site, or make it my home page (why would you every have a home page that isn’t blank? Unless they are on cable and have a search site as home), or people who expect me to love their pop-ups, banner ads, gambling sites, or tell me they give their **** for free, download their frigging search bar, creeping ads etc etc are treating me like an idiot.

The capacity for people to think they can waste my time is unlimited, fortunately I am a bit smarter that that, but it still annoys me.

Signed,

Annoyed.

Mark left the building and Annoyed has taken over. Mark was trying to think of something funny to say, but Annoyed got there first. :(

[webado]

Mark left the building and Annoyed has taken over. Mark was trying to think of something funny to say, but Annoyed got there first. :(
Errr..... Mark could try again???? :?

[JWJ]

Marks post reminded me of a riddle, though it is better spoken than read ...

What noise annoys an oyster most?

[China Tea]

So . . .

Is today's lesson . . . take out that "Pls add us to your favorites" script I so painstakingly pasted on my front page? Please advise.

And John

I was more referring to groping in the dark

What was that? :shock:

China Tea

[webado]

LOL! My post from midway up :lol:

Trials and tribulations of tweaking Windows XP & SP2 security paranoia :lol:

[JWJ]

So . . .

Is today's lesson . . . take out that "Pls add us to your favorites" script I so painstakingly pasted on my front page? Please advise.
My opinion, NO!! I never click on such links, and most people here don't either, but that doesn't mean to say they are doing any harm. You may choose to leave it out next time you are re-designing your page, but I shouldn't go out of your way to remove it.

And John

I was more referring to groping in the dark

What was that? :shock:
Yeh ... trust you to get interested when a grope in the dark is mentioned :wink:

What noise annoys an oyster most?

Well John, aren't you going to tell us the answer?

Not sure I will, you're not that interested.

Oh yes we are ... we're very interested.

Don't think you are.

Yes, yes ... we really are interested ... honest ... please tell us.

Oh, ok then ... if you're sure ....

.... next time :wink:

[webado]

:lol:

[China Tea]

Then, I will leave my "add us to my favorites" link. I love playing with it anyway.

Do oysters have ears?

If they did, won't any kind of noise annoy them anyway? And that's why they have their shells clammed shut. They, like John, want to do things in the dark . . . :wink:

But anyway, I still am interested to know John's answer to the question

What noise annoys an oyster most?

So I will watch this thread for the answer.

China Tea

[webado]

China Tea, say that fast..... :lol:

[xpang]

Interesting, it doesn't do anything... all I hear are some words coming out of my mouth.

About bookmarking sites...Hmm...Cmd-D is the way to go, cuz links can be malicious and eat your head!

[China Tea]

John wrote

What noise annoys an oyster most?

Yes, yes ... we really are interested ... honest ... please tell us.

Oh, ok then ... if you're sure ....

.... next time

And John, how do I use that banner you sent me here? :oops:

Don't know how! Waaaaa!

China

[JWJ]

Ah, now that might be difficult because I'm not sure how much you can do with your web space. First of all, if you can, you need to upload the image to your web site. It doesn't have to show on any pages necessarily. Then you will need to add a link to it from your signature by adding a line like "http: //shopdrops.com/shopdropsspin.gif" or similar depending on the exact location of the image.

By the way, "A noisy noise annoys an oyster most"

[China Tea]

Hello John,

I did the first part last night . . . I saved the logo to my web documents. . . and made it accessible for publication. . Then, I pasted the url to my profile and of course, it did not work . . .(me and my cut and paste mentality). . . I will try it again NOW. . .

Later . . .

John, it worked! :o You speak my language!!! :D Look everybody, John did the logo for me . . . and helped me use it too!

John, thank you . . . It is so beautiful! I owe you a thousand hugs!

An on your mystery riddle . . .

By the way, "A noisy noise annoys an oyster most"

I waited a week for this (well, almost) . . .

Is that all there is to that oyster? :lol:

Wuv you,
China Tea

[webado]

Nah, it didn't work because you are linking to the image file apaprently stored at an address from MSNUSERS - my guess is that it's inside an email.

Did you upload that image file to your Yahoo web space where you normally have personal images related to your web site? I mean not those from stock Yahoo database.

However I can see how your web site is made rather cryptically by Yahoo Sitebuilder so it's not obvious where things are stored there, like what's your own space and what's generic Yahoo.

[China Tea]

Am I blind? How come I see John's logo of my site where on my post while you and John say it's not working?

I published pictures from my msn web documents/pictures before and it worked. And at least from my computer, the logo I linked from that page worked (it's spinning quietly on my previous post).

Let me try again . . . Here it is. Please let me know if you don't see it.

Do you see it? Because I do . . . Please let me know!

China Tea

PS.... 1/12/05 ---- Did not Work!

[motorwatchercounter]

Hi China,

It is not there and also the MSN sign on keeps comming up. You need to put the logo in the profile part. John may have been in touch.

:lol:

[webado]

Am I blind? How come I see John's logo of my site where on my post while you and John say it's not working?

I published pictures from my msn web documents/pictures before and it worked. And at least from my computer, the logo I linked from that page worked (it's spinning quietly on my previous post).

Let me try again . . . Here it is. Please let me know if you don't see it.

http://www.msnusers.com/btd3ghjvptibugd7je7mcrtgn7/Documents/Spinning%20Logo%2FShopdropspin.gif

Do you see it? Because I do . . . Please let me know!

China Tea
Yes, it works for you from your computer because for you it can connect to your MSN account, since you're probably still signed in. Nobody else can see that, since it is private.

[China Tea]

Thanks Motorwatcher and Chris,

That just shows how challenged I really am!!!! :(
:oops:

However, John send me a lesson again . . . I will try it this weekend....
Right now, I just want to have fun....

La la la la . . . .

China Tea