Comments on: Design, readability and websites

By: KMatthews

KMatthews — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:49:44 +0000

Excellent advice.
Intersting how few websites actually follow the basics of good design which in turn leads to a poor user experience.

By: Callie O

Callie O — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:16:23 +0000

Excellent advice re typography.

A short reminder about copy. EDIT and RE EDIT.

Short and succinct. We scan and move on....

By: Design a better newspaper website « Virtualjournalist

Design a better newspaper website « Virtualjournalist — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:28:18 +0000

[...] on April 21, 2009 Malcolm Coles has a post that has yet to go out of style — how newspapers can improve their websites. And he critques those that could use his [...]

By: Richard Kendall

Richard Kendall — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:59:34 +0000

Great post, all good (but importantly not new) advice, and much of it relatively simple to implement.

Here's my twit for the OJB version: "no sidebars, single sentence pars, in content boxes = people don't/won't read long blocks of text online = head+banging+brick wall".

Sub-heads also help to add context particularly for mainly print version stories that will live forever in web archives.

Typography is a forgotten art for many online newspapers.

By: Newspaper websites need to improve their readability | Online Journalism Blog

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:44:30 +0000

[...] explain more, I’ve written a companion post on online readability (design, not writing - and this post was first published here). And here’s an example each of [...]