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Web design tip: What not to do
By Steve Outing on Feb 27, 2006 in Design
Projo.com has a nice story about 8th graders as they prepare for the coming transition to high school. (That’s a topic near and dear; my oldest daughter starts high school next fall.) But check out the story’s online layout. Ugh.
The four photos of the kids profiled (all with braces! mine, too) are stationary on the page. Use the scroll bar to move down the text and they stay in the same place. Problem is, on my screen at least, you can’t see the bottom part of the lower two photos, and can’t scroll to bring it into view. Also, it’s not intuitive that the scroll bar is how you move down the narrow strip of text in the middle. (And I think the text column is too narrow to read comfortably.) Don’t do this on your site.
On Mar 17, 2006, Mark Hamilton said:
I\'m with you. I have, in the past, registered to get at content. No more. Now when I hit a registration page, I move on. Life\'s too short and information is no longer scarce.