Defining and Storing User Preferences Between Sessions

One downfall of traditional web and AJAX applications is forcing the user to always start at the same location after they have logged in. In doing so the engineer and programmer decide what is most important for the user to see and what the initial state of the application is. Often this is done because it is believed that the users must always have the same experience with the application or be greeted by fluff such as seeing their name and some welcome message. Such arrogance is one reason why web applications are viewed by users as difficult to use or unfriendly.

In the example of this shown in this section, the user is able to select which of the subpages they want to be their initial ...

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