Don't Be Annoying
Why You Shouldn't Have your Site In a Popup Window
People associate pop-ups with ad-ware and spyware. Jakob Nielsen states that pop-up windows should only be used as a "supplement to a primary browser window" and should never contain "a full page of info..." He also warns that "users often close the pop-ups without even looking at their content" and warns against "using them for anything essential".
It greatly annoys users especially if you have overridden browser window standards (no address, bar, changing the size, etc.). Any link that you provide will display in that small constricted size that you designed for your website EVEN IF you tell it to open in a new winow (Firefox opens these pages in new tabs still within the same window with all the same window restrictions you put on your site). Essentially, you are forcing all of your website users to view any links you provide in YOUR constrictive little popup window size rendering all the external links you provided useless. Why uselesss? They can't scroll or resize the new webpage you so graciously provided a link to which means they can't see but a small portion of the site. They also can't go back, they can't go forward, they can't increase the window size, they can't bookmark this new webpage because you disabled the tool bar, AND right-click (they can't use any of the right-click options). They can't even see what the url to this new website is! All they can do is close the window. What was the point of that?
Disabling the Scrollbar in popup site with frames(by declaring a set height and then applying "overflow: hidden") may look fine with your website template, but if you have your website in a pop-up window, any external links opened will have the scrollbar disabled as well. This means users will be unable to look at the content below the fold of the page of any links you provide them. To avoid this problem entirely- don't have your website in pop-up window.
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