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Originally posted by robot180
I typed a sort of report about it, not spell checked or anything.
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Its really funny how in a "paper" about initial appearances, you admitted that you didn't spell check. If it wasn't worth the effort of hitting spell check (FFS, even netscape composer comes with spellcheck!) why should it be worth my time to read?
Also: yahoo doesn't have great use of space. There are waaaay too many links there that make it really hard to get where I want to go.
Google does things well, the white space leads your eye toward just typing in the search box. Not only that, but unlike yahoo, it doesn't have big columns of links. Personally anything past 4-5 links makes it really hard to find a particular item.
Don't leave white space.
Bad suggestion. White space is GOOD. It improves your readability alot. Why do you think binder paper comes with margins? White space is useful for guiding the eye toward certain things. Even more, white space is useful because without it, your page looks cramped!
Personally I will work with sites that give me a simple obvious way to navigate to information I want. If the information is on the first page, thats nice, but I better not have to dig for it. If its past 3 steps in, I just go back to google. *reading reading* So yah, I agree with B and C (two out of three!) Except the use of hyperbole is starting to grate. 100 item list is bad. 20 item list is still pretty bad. 10 item list is STILL bad. See, the difference between 10 and 100 seems pretty big, but when it comes to a big long strip of links, 10 is practically as bad as 100. (maybe its just me, everytime I go to yahoo, I can't find the yahoo games link. I always look around for like 30 seconds, then give up and resort to type-ahead-find in firebird...)
2a-d I mostly agree with. White is really boring though. Offwhite are nice. The main thing is to have a good contrast and that patterns/backgrounds are not overpowering. Look at say
www.zeldman.com, check out the light orangey background. Its slight enough that you wouldn't notice it all that much when reading, but gives the site a complete, more well rounded feel. (This actually sort of reminds me of something, this may be where my definition of whitespae and yours differs. When I say whitespace, I mean spots without TEXT.) The orange makes the page look more complete overall, minimizing the emptiness that may have been caused by the blank area on the right, while by not having content there, the design stays away from looking too "busy".
http://unraveled.com/ is another example of a site with a background. The background is VERY low-key, but keeps the large blank spaces from looking TOO blank.
totally agree with the stuff in 3. Most movement/blinking/etc is very distracting, and drives me utterly nuts.
Don't make columns in tables? please?
There are so many ways to do columns in CSS/semantic markup that its really a shame not to!