Best of Tokyo's Tips: Add-Ins
This section will help you get listed in the Best of Tokyo. Listed herein are tips, pointers, and other things about content and design. Click on the  icon to proceed.
The tips are categorized into Content, Design, Layout, User-Friendliness, and Navigation. Added bonus includes web promotion, user-interface, and add-ins.
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This includes scripting, and multimedia features.
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Tip: Give the user a choice to turn-off the JavaScript if they exist.
It is not stubborness that compel users to turn-off Java and Javascripts. It is more of a reality that some scripts are not recognized by all browsers. Rely more on the conventions of HTML 3.0 or 4.0 until such time that JavaScript's and Java Applets gain more prominence. Although Java and the like are the "IN" thing for webmasters, think of the users, your foremost client and not of the reviewers. Java applets can sometimes be too impertinent to a page, aside from taking the page much longer to load, thus exasperating the would be-user. If you could do a page relying only with HTML codes, do so.
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Tip: Minimize your plug-in download.
Majority are wary of downloading plug-ins. Many are even content with the thought of browsing pages as simple as if they're looking at some enhanced version of Wordstar document. Most of them will just leave the page rather than trouble themselves downloading a plug-in and be dismayed at the content later. Plug-ins never make a good page, anyway. It's still the content the user would want to read. They just want to be amazed or amused or informed by your content and not just be shocked by those plug-ins, among other things.
Most users neither have T1 connection nor the ability to comprehend the necessity of a plug-in.
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