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It is less opinion than standard practice these days, forcing windows on users is frowned upon and considered rather retro 90's.

 

Don't force new windows on users - Smack the Mouse.com

 

Beware of Opening Links in a New Window - SitePoint

 

The target attribute and opening new windows - 465 Berea St.

 

How evil is the target attribute? - Robert Nyman

 

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design - Jakob Nielsen (Nr. 9)

 

These are just a few links, Google the subject. Check our old forum, check Accessify.com and it's forum

 

This is one of the "do not do but for special occasions" things in web accessibility (I teach web accessibility for the State of Alaska).

 

That said, there are times for it and ways to do it right:

Open New Windows for PDF and other Non-Web Documents - Jakob Nielsen

 

New-Window Links in a Standards-Compliant World - SitePoint

 

Standards-Compliant New Windows - Accessify

 

Good Advice there LSW , cheers

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Thanks for all the replies guys ' n gals, I manage to get it working, but I am bearing in mind all your opinions about swamping the user with new windows, I was only looking to have it as an option on certain links on the site.. thank you for your help.. much appreciated.

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Thanks for the reply Thelma.

I totally agree - it would be a lot easier for the person to use the back button,

 

But my experience with customers and ordinary joe bloggs is that they will close when current window expect to see your site and not to have to use the back button.

 

A possible scenario -

1) When on the external site - you could end up going further and further into the site viewing products and details etc,

and I know most customers will not want to have to press the Back Button so many times to return to our site,

And after finishing with the external site, they will automatically hit the X to close and expect to see the original site.

if not opened in a new window there is the fear of not returning to our site.

 

Hope I make sense with my mumbo jumbo above

 

Is it a big task to include this on a website?

Thanks again.

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Hi Everybody -

First post so please be gentle

 

Great site by the way - plenty of tips.

 

I'm starting to design a company site - I'll probably have a fair few questions

But my question for the moment is

I have Images on my website - these images are Hyperlinked to external websites

How can I set them up so when the image is clicked that the link will open up in a new window

(Object is to keep my own original site open when a link is clicked)

 

I'm using Web Expression 1 - (soon to be using Version 2)

 

Thanks in advance

Paullyie