[thelist] three usability questions

Robert Gormley robert at pennyonthesidewalk.com
Thu Jul 1 18:56:09 CDT 2004


On 2004 July 01, Thursday 21:10, Erik Mattheis wrote:
> > The consultant would like the text of articles to run all the way
> > across the page. One of my pet peeves is websites that allow long
> > sections of text to run 100% of the browser window. I find it can be
> > difficult to find the next line when reading text at 100% of the
> > window's width. Thoughts?

> One of *my* pet peeves is a Web site set up such that no matter how wide
> I make my window, the text is in little bitty chunks of 4-5 words per
> line. So, if you don't like long lines, maybe make your browser window
> narrower?

I think there's some middle ground between your extreme. Personally I tend
to have content at around 90% of the window's width.

> > My second question is perhaps the most likely to be my subjective
> > opinion: The site serves different audiences - for instance, there's

> And you know this how? It's likely some of the information is actually
> useful to more than one group (at least outside of the stuff for kids).

Hence the word 'subjective', perhaps.

Robert

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