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Subject:	Re: New homepage for LUGNET
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general
Date:	Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:18:24 GMT
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Mike Thorn wrote: > > We all probably confirm this ourselves. When we visit a new website, > typically the first place we look is the left side or the masthead. > The natural left-to-right motion takes our eye then to the right side > of the page, then farther down. You do realise there's nothing *natural* about that? Not even half the worlds population read text in the direction we happen to be using. Also, with the way most advertisements show up on pages, many people tend to ignore both the left and right margins. I don't dispute that the center of the page is where most people look first, but where the eye wanders off after that is not so determined. Jacob Nielsens studies, http://www.useit.com is quite a good read about usability of web pages. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000514.html Eyetracking Study of Web Readers http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html How Users Read On The Web and a lot more... -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm Gallery: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery/index.htm

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		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
(...) Correct - but all readers of English go left to right. Those that read Hebrew may go right to left, but they won't be doing that here (and if they are it serves them right to be confused). (...) Thanks for posting those. I'll look into it. (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)

		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
(...) As most webpages have the navigation/menu on the left hand side, there's where I expect to find it if I need it. Having it turn on and off causes the main text to move around on the page, unless a blank space is reserved (which, in itself, is (...) (21 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

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		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
(...) Excellent. I just did a homepage image count and found six, including the BrickFest logo. If we were to have button links for a bunch of major sites, this could get heavy fast. That's why I aimed at 100KB - but the lower the better. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)

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