Re: Website readability

["Porrello, Leonard" <leonard -dot- porrello -at- COMPAQ -dot- COM>]

Find an excellent guide for web document creation at
:www.pdr-is.com/infoaxcs.htm

Its titled: "Enabling Extremely Rapid Navigation in Your Web Documentation."
Hoffman is the author.

I used to be of the chunking school until I read Hoffman's very cogent
arguments against.

Also interesting is his argument against the idea that information in books
is linear.

Leonard Porrello
Compaq, Telecom Solutions Division
Pubs, Omaha
402.384.7390


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen D. Murphy
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 9:28 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Website readability
>
> Doug, I was just reading through the electronic publishing guide that
> Adobe publishes (and distributes on many of its CD-ROMs as a PDF). They
> provide several suggestions:
>
> *       Use a sans-serif font for on-screen display (contrary to the
> popular wisdom for printed material)
> *       Add some extra leading (line-spacing) to on-screen text (not
> sure you can do much with that on the web, unless you're using PDFs)
> *       Make the text larger than you would for printed material
>
> Those are the ones I remember... as for color, I think it depends on
> what you have in the background. I personally like dark teals and
> browns, but that is just my preference.
>
> As for "long-scrolling pages," I think they are bad news. They take a
> long time to download and are a pain to read under any circumstances.
> Try to "chunk" your information into smaller pages, if possible.
>
>

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