Website review: Reading on the Web (Alertbox)

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xABCD0123 rated 29 months ago
Excellent resource for designing a web page. I'm in the process of making a shopping cart, and you never know, these techniques may make more sells for me.
khayos rated 29 months ago
Very interesting (and intuitive) writeup on how people read things on the internet. Look in particular at how they wrote -- I used exactly the habits they talked about when reading it, and I got the point. Neat, eh?
redwolf rated 30 months ago
Some nice advice for writing for web pages. Thanks, heroesvoice. Of course, I will ignore the advice in my own writings, but web stuff is for self amusement only.
BillionsMcMillio rated 31 months ago
People are so lazy it's hilarious. You just gotta be more inventive, is all.
alfredoabambres rated 31 months ago
How Users Read on the Web They don't. People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences. In a recent study John Morkes and I found that 79 percent of our test users always scanned any new pa
Lyrical rated 32 months ago
writing/design: defend yourself from writing marketese
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