Designing User-Friendly Layout
When designing a site, think about your first-time viewing audience. How will they perceive your site? Will it be visually inviting? Will they want to stay and explore?
Designing User-Friendly Layout
When designing a site, think about your first-time viewing audience. How will they perceive your site? Will it be visually inviting? Will they want to stay and explore?
Text Blocks |
Keep text
blocks short. Long paragraphs are intimidating; break them up with
headers and sub-headers.
Be concise. Have someone else proofread your writing; an unbiased reader is good at finding ways to make your writing to-the-point. |
Text Alignment |
Keep your main
text left-aligned. Left-aligned is much easier to read than center-aligned,
and much switching between left and center breaks up the flow of the page.
Of course it's fine to center things like poems, which are usually presented
that way.
The <blockquote> tag is very useful. It indents your text on both sides (like the intro at the top of this page), making the lines shorter and therefore easier to read. |
Page Length |
Limit pages to 3 or 4 screens in length; pages that require excessive scrolling are disorienting. Minimize page lengths by splitting their contents up into shorter pages with more specific subjects. If you must have a long page, use a table of contents. |
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This page last updated 10-Mar-98.
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*No graphics in Shady Oaks are for public use except the E-Trees and customizable backgrounds in The BG Mold.* |
