{"id":573,"date":"2009-06-10T19:46:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T00:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2009-06-10T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T00:46:43","slug":"would-it-have-been-so-hard-to-put-it-on-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/would-it-have-been-so-hard-to-put-it-on-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Would it have been so hard to put it on your website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are offering a download of any kind, state the terms right up front. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I am leery of downloading anything whose status I have to guess at. It makes me concerned that the code or product has the same lack of attention to detail.<\/p>\n<p>There are many kinds of download. Is it free for all time? Just a trial? A Beta? Will clicking &#8220;download&#8221; kick you without warning to a page where you think users are going to blithely put their credit card numbers and addresses in? Don&#8217;t leave your readers wondering. If a user has to go to google to find out this information, you better have a damn good, unique, exceptional product or they probably won&#8217;t come back for the download.<\/p>\n<p>Note, this is not related to the SuperPreview post right before this one, though Microsoft could stand to pay attention to this advice with regard to SuperPreview as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are offering a download of any kind, state the terms right up front. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I am leery of downloading anything whose status I have to guess at. It makes me concerned that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/would-it-have-been-so-hard-to-put-it-on-your-website\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}