Wednesday

I have been thinking about how to offer long articles on the web.

When I was at Uni they told us that no one will read a screen full of text that needs to be scrolled more than once. The articles I am looking at adding to the website I am working on at the moment are anything up to 6 pages long in a Word document at 11pt.

The solution I have come up with relies on the articles' author being able to write a 2 paragraph precis that is displayed on the relevant web page. Below it is a link to a PDF of the full article. Just in case there are a few people still out there who haven't heard of PDFs, I have included a link on the page to the free download of the latest version of Adobe Reader which should allow anyone interested to read the article on line or print a hard copy for reading later. All I have to do is remember to lock the PDF so it can't be edited.

I have built a couple of demo pages on the site - I just hope the client approves.