Take a look at this
post from 10e20. I’m just curious about something: do you find it easy to read the article?
I didn’t. I got very frustrated trying to find the text between the graphics, particularly when the graphics included screenshots full of text. The headers also distracted me because they were so close together and so huge they overwhelmed the text. And all those images are in my feedreader, too, so that didn’t help.
But I’m weird. I prefer nothing but text, and I know I’m unusual in that preference. I can take maybe one or two photos tucked neatly into the text, never dividing it horizontally so that I might come to an image and not realize I need to scroll down for more text. I loathe video (as in, will not watch it for love ner money). I like my articles the same way I like my fiction: unillustrated.
However, I’m not writing for myself and I realize I’m atypical. So my question to you is: is that article too busy? If so, what would you prefer to be left out? I would’ve been okay with smaller header graphics (like, half as tall) and maybe nicely aligned thumbshots for some of the screenshots so I could click them and view them when I’m ready to switch into image mode.
Apologies to 10e20 for “using you as an example.” ;)
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