Re: [boost] [website] When will the new website be ready?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-12 01:07:46

Sorry for the late response... The emails slipped my radar.

David Abrahams wrote:
> Jim Douglas <jim_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> And for those that don't know, the new site design is at 
>>> <http://boost.redshift-software.com/>.
>> Nice work!
>>
>> I have one constructive criticism of the style regarding usability. 
>> Research has established that we humans find it difficult to read very 
>> long lines of text. The optimum seems to be around 10 - 15 words per line.
>>
>> I am of the belief that this should be achieved by putting the text in 
>> tables that restrict the line length. See my site at:
>>
>> http://www.dramatec.co.uk/boost-qnx6/
> 
> I'm on your side of this debate, and I'm pretty sure Rene is, too.

I am.

> But there's a long history here.  Lots of people resented the fact
> that so much of their screen real-estate was being "wasted"

That's an accurate history. The first designs I did had both a maximum 
and minimum width and there was considerable complaint on both ends of 
the spectrum.

>> The new design allows the text to flow almost the full width of the 
>> screen, and on my monitor with 1280 px across that results in about 30 
>> words per line.
>>
>> OK, so the reader is at liberty to set the width of the browser window...
> 
> And that was the counter-argument, IIRC.

It was also the argument that some readers could not set the width 
because they wanted to read in limited devices, i.e. PDAs.

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