Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Week 8 Reading
Blah-Blah Text: Cut, Keep, or Kill? This article was written by Jakob Nielsen, a PhD who studies human-computer interaction. He offers advice on how to make your website more "readable" and some help with writing for the web. As you read the text provided, think about how you will use introductory text on your webpages for the final project. The homepage you are designing for project #2 is just the beginning...
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Definitely, it was a great reading this week. I agree with the author where he mentions that making a intro short and important makes the entire site essential. It also true that visitors don't want to spend time reading long paragraphs, and they rather surf out from websites like these. Finally, let's always remember the "What" and "Why"; what do they need to find from your website and why will they spend more time in it.
I found that this article Is very informing about how you can over due you websites content. Intro to websites are beginning to be obsolete because of search engine. It is a lot easier using search engine these days so people go directly to where they got to go so intro, for some cases, not needed because they already know what they are looking for. .
This artical is interesting. It tells you that you need a good eye catching desging, or response to your webpick to your website. As a person that dose not want to read the sites on the intenet I sometimes find some eye catching words or pictures for me to look at the site. If it not the website that you are interested in looking at or even giveing a look over because of poor execution; then I can understand why not to look at the website.
It is a true challenge to convey an idea to an audience that is fishing for it in a sea of information, especialy when they are skimming through that sea at a rate of one page per second. There are other ways to make people look at specific things more closely, rather than shortening or highlighting. What would some of those other ways be?
This was a very beneficial article...I think it would be very tempting to "fill" space with alot of unneeded words. I especially liked how the author himself still after 10 years has to check & recheck himself, showing just how difficult of a task it is to stay to the point.
This artice is very informing. I have seen many websites that have needless text and are really boring. When people are looking for information they want to quickly and don't like to waste time.
I agree with this reading as I too don't like to read alot on websites, short and too the point is what I like.
I liked this reading but I didnt like it. It was very informational but I dont know if she was trying to show what blah blah text is or if that is how she wrote her site. My eyes kept skipping around to all the highlighted and bold words and I didnt like that
This reading is very true. I dont read all that blah blah blah. i look for words that stick out and that are about whatever Im on that site for.
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