Comments on: Fresh look

By: Srinivas

Srinivas — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:58:35 +0000

May be I have missed the previous look.

By: Shashikant

Shashikant — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:22:16 +0000

Thanks for the links.

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:47:21 +0000

I’ll try to dig up academic references, but for the time being here is some anecdotal evidence:

* http://www.webreference.com/programming/typography/
* http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/info8.html
* http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.htm
* http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/readability.cfm#blocksize

By: Shashikant

Shashikant — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:26:21 +0000

Call it idiosyncrasy, but I don’t like too much of vertical scroll. Moving the required text on paper to your eyesight is easier than scrolling with mouse/down arrow as the later requires little attention to get it right.

Please point me to research on this subject if you come across. It would be intersting to learn the details.

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:47:15 +0000

*@shashi*: several, actually. First of all, a fixed width layout is much easier/cleaner/portable than a fluid one (in terms of code) :) Secondly, I think there is research showing that humans don’t like reading long lines of text — the same reason why _all_ news papers and magazines use several short columns. So on a wide screen I actually _don’t_ want my text to be too wide. You don’t agree?

By: Shashikant

Shashikant — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:53:49 +0000

This is as clean as earlier with better aesthetics.

Any reason for restricting the width (to 800px)? On my wide screen, the actual blog content occupies only 40% of the available width.