I can't really tell you why it is that a long-ass page that shows a microscopic mote in the scroll bar that's near impossible to grab urks me so badly. Perhaps it's because those long-ass pages are gross violations of Krug's Third Law Of Usability:
"Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what's left."
Granted, many of said pages I run across are blogs, in which folks are free to Anne Rice-ify their thoughts ad nauseum, because that's what blogs are for. On my end, though, I pledge to keep my blog entries short and (hopefully) to the point, assuming I have one. To plagiarize a fellow 5433 blogger, I want to do my part to ameliorate web users' "heightened sense that they are drowning in way, way too much information."
I feel like I've gone on too long already . . .
Saturday, September 1, 2007
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2 comments:
Great point! As that fellow blogger you quote, I must admit I feel my posts are indeed too long. Gotta work on that. Enjoy your holiday!
I don't mind long posts too much, so long as they're well-written, but long paragraphs are very difficult for me to read on the screen. White space, white space, white space!
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