Comments on: New year, new design. http://tatumweb.com/blog/2006/08/06/new-year-new-design/ Pentecostal Rumination and Review Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:34:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Rich http://tatumweb.com/blog/2006/08/06/new-year-new-design/comment-page-1/#comment-24449 Rich Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:48:00 +0000 http://tatumweb.com/blog/index.php/2006/08/06/new-year-new-design/#comment-24449 Thanks for stopping by and giving me an evaluation, Marc. I appreciate it. By the way, nice redesign on your weblog! I think my weblog is probably too cluttered, but I feel paranoid about people not being able to discover content they are interested in, so I have so many widgets going on that it may be information overload. I'm not sure. That said, however, usability research does indicate that shorter column width for the content of your page makes it easier to read--not harder. Forcing the eye to travel too far accross the page produces too much eyestrain. But, then, so does writing too much, which I'm prone to do. Oh well. Thanks, again. Rich <a href="http://tatumweb.com/blog/">BlogRodent</a> Thanks for stopping by and giving me an evaluation, Marc. I appreciate it. By the way, nice redesign on your weblog!

I think my weblog is probably too cluttered, but I feel paranoid about people not being able to discover content they are interested in, so I have so many widgets going on that it may be information overload. I’m not sure. That said, however, usability research does indicate that shorter column width for the content of your page makes it easier to read–not harder. Forcing the eye to travel too far accross the page produces too much eyestrain.

But, then, so does writing too much, which I’m prone to do. Oh well.

Thanks, again.

Rich
BlogRodent

]]> By: Marc V http://tatumweb.com/blog/2006/08/06/new-year-new-design/comment-page-1/#comment-22253 Marc V Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:01:23 +0000 http://tatumweb.com/blog/index.php/2006/08/06/new-year-new-design/#comment-22253 Looks purty good. I'm a 2-column man myself. 3 columns tends to make for skinny posts, and some folks don't like the near-constant scrolling to read a post. It also limits you if you want to include pictures with a post. If you have ads and a bunch of items in different categories, then 3 columns helps support all the extra "stuff". The red links on blue background stands out well. Looks purty good. I’m a 2-column man myself. 3 columns tends to make for skinny posts, and some folks don’t like the near-constant scrolling to read a post. It also limits you if you want to include pictures with a post.

If you have ads and a bunch of items in different categories, then 3 columns helps support all the extra “stuff”. The red links on blue background stands out well.

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