Comments on: The Secret to Faster Reading Online

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:54:23 +0000

Haven’t read AlertBox yet - I’ll check it out, thanks!

By: Merv

Merv — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:43:33 +0000

jf…thanks for tips, especially Alertbox. Although, I personally don’t find their site very visually appealing. I get more good tips from http://www.stylegala.com/ and http://www.alistapart.com/.

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Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:56:06 +0000

[…] Sellsius° counters: Write it so they can read it… […]

By: sellsius°

sellsius° — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:12:37 +0000

Easton, have you read any Alertbox? The insights on writing for the web are quite revealing.

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:17:44 +0000

Interesting. Thanks for this reminder. I guess different audiences might prefer different line widths, though - I personally liked the narrowest lines.

By: sellsius°

sellsius° — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:53:33 +0000

Thanks fat bear. Experience is the best teacher.

By: fatbear

fatbear — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:54:48 +0000

Not only does it not publish long lines, but the RSS feed gets even funkier. Stick with 55 no matter what they say - after all, 55 saves lives and gas too.

By: sellsius°

sellsius° — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:49:21 +0000

Ha you caught that Broker in LA. I painstakingly made the line lengths to illustrate the test line lengths in the draft only to discover on publish it did not fit. Drat!

Teresa have you read any Alertbox? More tips on writing for the web– bullets, highlighting…

Greg, everyone knows a dog is a man’s best friend :).

-jf

By: Greg Swann

Greg Swann — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:19:13 +0000

Long, dense text and no sense about throwing in illustrations. That boy ain’t right in the head!

(Thank you. You’re very sweet.)

By: Teresa Boardman

Teresa Boardman — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:27:26 +0000

I write for a small community newspaper. We were taught to not use long paragraphs or use have long inches of dense text with not graphics or white space. I am seeing some blog posts are there that pack in hundreds of words in one long paragraph of small print. I think people have short attention spams so I keep mine short and like you I include a grpahic.