Re: text-heavy site- ideas?

Hi Beth:

Your question is one that should be asked since reading a lot text on a 
monitor is difficult at best.

I tend to do a lot of research on the web and prefer to print my pages out so 
that I can read them at my lesiure.  So you should try the following:

- build your site so that it is narrow enough to print out (I hate it when I 
lose the right hand margin because the page was designed too wide);

- offer a link to a "printer friendly" version

- offer the ability to download the page(s) as a PDF

- also, keep your graphics to a minimum if you're trying to emphasize the 
body content

You can also do a bit of reading on layout of web pages - Jakob Neilsen, 
http:www.useit.com, is always glad to lend his opinion  :-)  Try one of his 
articles at:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html

If you get a chance, submit the URL and I'm sure the good people on this list 
will help you with these issues....

- Jeff K.

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