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Interest and Attention Getting
- Interest and attention getting.
- Interactive with e-mail
- Chat group response (should be monitored by someone).
- Ability to pick up where previous session ended.
- Information in small segments, but linked so information flows and is readily accessible
- Ability to jump from topic to topic (surfing a site).
- Use of graphic images.
- Use limited graphics to support textual content
- Keep graphics small (thumbnail graphics).
- Keep graphics at 256 colors as large graphics files take longer to load.
- In written HTML, specify HEIGHT and WIDTH with all graphic images, so text will appear on the screen while images are beeing loaded.
- motion
- Other attention getters.
Let the user click to hear/see audio and video. Don't force the user to click an ALERT screen that he/she does not have the plug and play on his/her computer, and another ALERT on how to download the plug and play
- Limit audio and video clips (only on demand, user may not have plug-in)
- music (only on demand, user may not have plug-in)
- sermons -- audio and video (only on demand, user may not have plug-in)
- Offer short clips from sermons will be listened to or viewed more frequently than the whole sermon.
- thoughts for the day -- written, audio and video (only on demand, user may not have plug-in)
- combinations of approaches.
- Guestbooks are going out of style.
- E-mail newsletters and a e-mail Weekly are in. (Keep it short -- 3 to 5 minutes reading time is max.)
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