Re: text-heavy site- ideas?

And don
t forget to
make tho
se line
s nice and
short!

:-)
Fuzzy.




At 12:12 PM 2/28/01 , ErthWlkr(at)aol.com wrote:
>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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