Web Page Stickiness

**"* H* <g*@charter.net>**

I talked with a fellow listserv member about ten days ago about attracting and retaining visitors to a website.  He said that the home page should be "sticky," with elements such as flash presentation or music to keep hoppers from leaving.  That made perfect sense to me.....until I started putting together a new website.

My thoughts are these.  Flash and music are memory intensive and take time to download, especially for dial-up and broadband users with less than optimal connections.  And, there are many of those, especially in rural areas.  Wouldn't this turn off a potential site viewer and cause them to stop the download?

What have all of you with successful website done to attract hits and retain the visitor?
Doreen Howard
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