Post details: Writing For Web

04/20/06

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Writing For Web

Some of us (me for example) write articles and other text for web users. As it turned out, it's a completely different beast. At least I didn't know, may be just suspected.

People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences. In a recent study John Morkes and I found that 79 percent of our test users always scanned any new page they came across; only 16 percent read word-by-word. Jakob Nielsen

Therefore when you adapt your writing approach and already written texts you can improve usability by 159%. And there is a good set of articles to do so. Just read them and apply.
For example, there you will find out about F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content, which you could use to better organize your text.

One more thing. Have you noticed that some web designers use latin text to fill the areas in their layout mockups? Yes, me too. So here is a link to the website that can generate tons of such text just for you.

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