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It is pretty - but it triggers a pet peeve of mine. I spend 30 seconds trying to get this page to "do something". It is just the photo and a blue bar a the bo

It is pretty - but it triggers a pet peeve of mine. I spend 30 seconds trying to get this page to "do something". It is just the photo and a blue bar a the bottom. No indication of "scroll down". I wonder how many people give up. I was close.

jgj 14y ago
Are you on an OS that hides the scrollbar? I scroll any time I hit a webpage anyway, but even if I didn't I would look over at my scrollbar and see that there is plenty of room to scroll before getting frustrated.
- cschmidt 14y ago
  No it was there, I just don't tend to pay much attention to my scroll bar. It is way over there on the right. The designer of this page went to a lot of effort to make the blue bar at the bottom fill the entire page, without letting any of the "below the fold" content show. If you resize the window, it grows. I don't scroll pages unless there is a visual indication that something is there. I have a nice big screen, so many pages fit fine. Maybe I'm just an idiot who can't operate a browser properly, but I think this is a case of designer seeking elegance over usability.
  - alaskamiller 14y ago
    They probably wagered on people's tendency to use space bar to navigate pages.
- abraham 14y ago
  Newer Macs hide the scrollbar when the pag is not actually scrolling.
  - fschwehn 14y ago
    right - that's why i missed it too. it was just the title that made me think "where's the report?". so i waited for something to happen (animation or so). next i tried to klick the page - maybe that would trigger the next slide? and finally i did scroll... nice butt by the way :-)
rogerbinns 14y ago
I only figured out the scroll down after seeing your comment. I was about to give figuring out their site was overloaded or similar and this was their fail whale equivalent. For the record Chrome for me uses a grey scrollbar with a grey handle. I have to look very carefully at a tiny part of my large screen to work out where the handle is. (I have no idea where Chrome picked up the wrong colours from.)
ChuckMcM 14y ago
Interesting, I always use a scroll wheel mouse these days and inevitably when I hit the landing page of a web site I just assume there is more if I scroll down. So in this case it never occurred to me not to scroll down. I can see how you would miss that if you don't have this habit though.
- rtpg 14y ago
  it might be an exposure thing.A lot of sites posted here seem to use a design that lacks scroll hints, but I never run into that design philosophy in the "real" world.
cgag 14y ago
I only finally starting to try to scroll instinctively after being fooled by so many sites here. I wonder how common it is among less tech savvy people to not realize there's more too the page if it's so common here.

jgj 14y ago

Are you on an OS that hides the scrollbar? I scroll any time I hit a webpage anyway, but even if I didn't I would look over at my scrollbar and see that there is plenty of room to scroll before getting frustrated.

cschmidt 14y ago
No it was there, I just don't tend to pay much attention to my scroll bar. It is way over there on the right. The designer of this page went to a lot of effort to make the blue bar at the bottom fill the entire page, without letting any of the "below the fold" content show. If you resize the window, it grows. I don't scroll pages unless there is a visual indication that something is there. I have a nice big screen, so many pages fit fine. Maybe I'm just an idiot who can't operate a browser properly, but I think this is a case of designer seeking elegance over usability.
- alaskamiller 14y ago
  They probably wagered on people's tendency to use space bar to navigate pages.
abraham 14y ago
Newer Macs hide the scrollbar when the pag is not actually scrolling.
- fschwehn 14y ago
  right - that's why i missed it too. it was just the title that made me think "where's the report?". so i waited for something to happen (animation or so). next i tried to klick the page - maybe that would trigger the next slide? and finally i did scroll... nice butt by the way :-)

rogerbinns 14y ago

I only figured out the scroll down after seeing your comment. I was about to give figuring out their site was overloaded or similar and this was their fail whale equivalent. For the record Chrome for me uses a grey scrollbar with a grey handle. I have to look very carefully at a tiny part of my large screen to work out where the handle is. (I have no idea where Chrome picked up the wrong colours from.)

ChuckMcM 14y ago

Interesting, I always use a scroll wheel mouse these days and inevitably when I hit the landing page of a web site I just assume there is more if I scroll down. So in this case it never occurred to me not to scroll down. I can see how you would miss that if you don't have this habit though.

rtpg 14y ago
it might be an exposure thing.A lot of sites posted here seem to use a design that lacks scroll hints, but I never run into that design philosophy in the "real" world.

cgag 14y ago

I only finally starting to try to scroll instinctively after being fooled by so many sites here. I wonder how common it is among less tech savvy people to not realize there's more too the page if it's so common here.