Over 90% of the information on a website is written, so it is obvious that we must control the perfection of this discipline, both graphically and structurally.
We must know how to distribute all of this information, giving prominence to the importance of knowing what is essential to highlight the other, so that users can easily find what you are looking for.
Factors such as the scalability of typography, the use of text blocks, headlines, photo captions or feet, are factors that a web designer has to bear in mind when faced with a new design.
It is true that we have a limitation in the choice of the sources we use, therefore, might be better to assimilate this and worry about how to display and not use that font. Whatever source is chosen, we need to use so that the content of the page for the user as an interface, just as logical and usable. Holders sufficiently large, prominent and descriptive categories well located, etc … In this way the user can browse through the content just as if it were a menu.
When we read a newspaper online, use the menu in the background, we have to look beyond the headlines, when one draws us, click on it and read the article, in whole or above, by its subtitle, bold, etc …
Designer’s work is pleasant to do this reading, and one of the most useful tools we have, the spaces are blank, so to give an interline or to separate ideas, there is nothing worse than facing a full page of letters without points part or spaces. The feeling is overwhelmed and a rapid abandonment by the user.
Sample text in the form of interface, we can see in addition to online newspapers, portals such as Google, eBay, Flickr, and … if they do …
We must provide adequate space and the size of our fonts, to give a reading in horizontal and not vertical.
An owner must always be larger than a title and this will also be well distinguished from its accompanying text. At a Glance must appreciate the location of these three text labels.
The abusive use of bold, caused the opposite effect to its purpose. We need to use bold when necessary, to highlight a word. A good use of bold, we can make a perfect idea of the content of a paragraph to read only those words highlighted, but never abused. The same applies to the other elements, such as italics, and besides the point …
Columns too wide are difficult to read, so it is advisable to use an average of 10 words per line, thus facilitating the reading.
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