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FloppieTheBanjoClown
The Skunkworks
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Posted - 2012.09.03 21:51:00 -
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Ever wonder why newspapers are in columns?
Because we read much faster with shorter lines. Our eyes/brains are best suited for scrolling.
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FloppieTheBanjoClown
The Skunkworks
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Posted - 2012.09.03 22:01:00 -
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AlleyKat wrote:V.surprised to learn people have no issues having a website zoomed in fully to fit the screen, yet have issues with a website which would have content fitting the screen.
Contradiction?
No contradiction there.
Small print running edge-to-edge on a widescreen monitor is going to force your eyes to do a LOT of moving.
Study some graphic design and you'll understand it better :)
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FloppieTheBanjoClown
The Skunkworks
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Posted - 2012.09.05 14:48:00 -
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AlleyKat wrote:Sitting at the correct distance, I have no issues with text being on a widescreen monitor that fills the screen at 12pt, hell, even 9pt feels fine. Maybe visit optician?
Look, you can pop your "it's fine for me" anecdotes all you want, I have science backing me up. Newspapers use columns for a reason. We use 8.5 x 11 / A4 paper in portrait format for a reason. Our books are shaped that way FOR A REASON. And that reason is, our eyes and brains are best suited for reading narrow columns of text.
AlleyKat wrote:Besides, websites are not all text btw, especially if you have a good web designer, but even if the nature of the web site meant that it had to be text, even then, a two column approach would be wrong???? Why?
The reason you shouldn't use multiple columns on a digital document is that it could require scrolling back to the top. As with wide text lines, this slows down reading and causes breaks in flow, resulting in poorer reading comprehension and quite possibly loss of readers.
There have been efforts in the past to build websites that use columns and side scrolling, but people have been resistant to it because it deviates from the norm. It doesn't help that most of those are done by graphic artists and don't really demonstrate how it can be used with text.
AlleyKat wrote:Lazy designers using bs stats is bs.
Ignorant users claiming expertise is hilarious.
Note: I'm not a web designer. I've tinkered a bit and write a couple of blogs, but I'm not invested in this argument as needing to defend anything. I just think you're incredibly wrong.
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FloppieTheBanjoClown
The Skunkworks
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Posted - 2012.09.05 15:00:00 -
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AlleyKat wrote:Websites should have auto orientation for content, and due to lazy idiot web designers whose life consists of using templates and thinking they are being "creative", we have to have underutilised web pages with 2/3rds of the screen empty, and the remaining content off the bottom of the screen.
If you're such an expert on web design, how about you put together a site to demonstrate how you think it should be done? If the only reason we don't have "auto orientation for content" is because the developers are lazy idiots, then it should be easy for a motivated genius such as yourself to show us how it should be done. Hell, you could make a killing selling templates to the idiots.
Wait...you CAN make websites, right?
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