Usable Web

786 links about web usability

Indexes: Topics | Destinations | Authors | Site Index

Home
About
 -     - 
  

Find more like: Reading on the Web (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html)

 

  
  

If this link is exactly what you are looking for...
 

 

Try these search engine queries to find more like it...
 

  
  

URL: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html
 

 

Pages that link to this URL:
Google, AltaVista, HotBot.
 

  
  

Title: Reading on the Web
 

 

Search for this title (exact phrase):
Google, AltaVista, HotBot.
 

  
  

Meta-information
Topic(s): Writing Styles (13)
Destination: Alertbox (101)
Author(s): Nielsen, Jakob (116)
 

 

Search for all of these words:
Google, AltaVista, HotBot.
 

  
  

More about this link

Make text easy to scan.

Since users do not read Web pages, make the text scannable by using keywords, meaningful sub-headings, bulleted lists, one idea per paragraph, the inverted pyramid style, half the word count.

Includes summary of an experiment on 4 differently-written versions of a site.

October 1, 1997 Alertbox.

Added/Updated: October 1, 1997

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html

  
 -     - 


Link verified by a robot: December 30, 2002 (or later).
© 1995 - 2006 Usable Web