[thelist] Single- or multiple-page articles?

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Thu Jun 27 09:16:03 CDT 2002


on sites i had worked on, the later pages often didn't get read -- it
was too annoying to some users, others lost interest, others just
didn't notice...

authors felt it was a disservice...

from a maintenance perspective, one page is easier to maintain
and move around from template to template -- unless you've got a
top-notch CMS implementation that can handle this... i haven't
seen many real-world cases where this is true....

from a reader perspective, one page is definitely better... i can print
it (without hunting for a print version), i can scan it, do keyword
searches against the body of the entire article, etc...

i did experiment with multi-pagers once, but i quickly undid that
after testing and trying to maintain it...


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