Sorry for the late response... The emails slipped my radar. David Abrahams wrote:
Jim Douglas <jim@dramatec.co.uk> writes:
Rene Rivera wrote:
And for those that don't know, the new site design is at <http://boost.redshift-software.com/>. Nice work!
I have one constructive criticism of the style regarding usability. Research has established that we humans find it difficult to read very long lines of text. The optimum seems to be around 10 - 15 words per line.
I am of the belief that this should be achieved by putting the text in tables that restrict the line length. See my site at:
I'm on your side of this debate, and I'm pretty sure Rene is, too.
I am.
But there's a long history here. Lots of people resented the fact that so much of their screen real-estate was being "wasted"
That's an accurate history. The first designs I did had both a maximum and minimum width and there was considerable complaint on both ends of the spectrum.
The new design allows the text to flow almost the full width of the screen, and on my monitor with 1280 px across that results in about 30 words per line.
OK, so the reader is at liberty to set the width of the browser window...
And that was the counter-argument, IIRC.
It was also the argument that some readers could not set the width because they wanted to read in limited devices, i.e. PDAs. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo