Comments on: Today’s date is… http://www.brianwold.com/free/2006/01/16/todays-date-is/ Free Advice and Commentary on Web Site Issues Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:18:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: me ! http://www.brianwold.com/free/2006/01/16/todays-date-is/#comment-6 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:23:41 +0000 http://www.brianwold.com/free/2006/01/16/todays-date-is/#comment-6 Not many would open their browser and aim for site x -- unless it's a portal. I've selected the option on my Integrated Dev't Environment to display the clock, not because I don't have 82 clocks elsewhere, but because if that's where I'm working, then it's in the foreground, has focus, not occluded, and I can glance at the time. Right now. So. If your website is aimed at itinerants, sure, skip the clock. But if they live there, and this is their "home" page ... I once went to a website to get the time (hazards of having too many clocks) -- http://nist.time.gov/ Not many would open their browser and aim for site x — unless it’s a portal. I’ve selected the option on my Integrated Dev’t Environment to display the clock, not because I don’t have 82 clocks elsewhere, but because if that’s where I’m working, then it’s in the foreground, has focus, not occluded, and I can glance at the time. Right now.

So. If your website is aimed at itinerants, sure, skip the clock. But if they live there, and this is their “home” page …

I once went to a website to get the time (hazards of having too many clocks) — http://nist.time.gov/

]]> by: Brian http://www.brianwold.com/free/2006/01/16/todays-date-is/#comment-5 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:43:51 +0000 http://www.brianwold.com/free/2006/01/16/todays-date-is/#comment-5 True. But when they need to know the date/time, how many of them would open their Web browser and browse to a Web site to find out? They'll still ask you. And the date/time on the Web site will still be clutter. True. But when they need to know the date/time, how many of them would open their Web browser and browse to a Web site to find out?

They’ll still ask you. And the date/time on the Web site will still be clutter.

]]> by: me ! http://www.brianwold.com/free/2006/01/16/todays-date-is/#comment-3 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:58:40 +0000 http://www.brianwold.com/free/2006/01/16/todays-date-is/#comment-3 Yabbut ! I can't think of the number of not-quite-computer-literate folk I've hung around who don't know that Windows provides a clock on the taskbar (even those who don't auto-hide their taskbar), or if they do know about the clock, they don't know that a hover produces flyover day / date and double-click produces a calendar. So I get asked "what's the date today ?" ... So while I agree on clutter-reduction, one man's clutter is another man's carefully piled info stack :-). Yep. Yabbut ! I can’t think of the number of not-quite-computer-literate folk I’ve hung around who don’t know that Windows provides a clock on the taskbar (even those who don’t auto-hide their taskbar), or if they do know about the clock, they don’t know that a hover produces flyover day / date and double-click produces a calendar.

So I get asked “what’s the date today ?” …

So while I agree on clutter-reduction, one man’s clutter is another man’s carefully piled info stack :-) .

Yep.

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