Miru Nadielsk — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:52:06 GMT

I want to join in with the praise, here. I work for a company designing for several news organizations, and it was hard for me to not forward this to all of our site managers. I don’t want to repeat all of the good points that have already been made (certain content belongs above the fold etc.) but there is definitely a problem, especially with news sites, of cramming all of the “good stuff” above the fold, making the lower section of the page a boring wasteland of text links. It’s like reading sales fliers with several hundred pixels of fine print at the bottom.

It’s hard for a lot of people to realize that scrolling isn’t comparable to the more physical act of reading a newspaper—it’s quite easy to scroll and people enjoy finding good stuff lower in the page—even the laziest of news/information hounds can be coaxed into reading more because of the simplicity.

I have passed your article on to several co-workers—let’s see what kind of great sites we can build if we can convince the traditionalists to take full advantage of their sites.

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Miru Nadielsk