thanks for you reply - i hadn't even considered whether people *would*
log-out! perhaps the button should read "send me the cash" rather than "log
out"!
Debbie
>It's best to provide some means of logging out... session timeouts
>need to be there because with the web you cannot force people to log
>out.
>
>They might not want to click the little "logout" button.
>
>In fact, on the system I work on, it seems to be against many of the
>users' religons to click on the logout button. Something to do with
>the colour turquoise perhaps...
>
>It doesn't really matter how many users... it's more a question of
>how heavy the resource load is per user.
>
>If you have 20 users each with an entire copy of a 40Gb database in
>their session this might not run too well on a lower-powered server.
>/8->
>
>So the answer is: yes it is good practice to provide a log out, but
>no, your users are unlikely to ever use it.
>
>
>Nic Ferrier
>
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