Limiting Your Content
Published May 5, 2009 | 
When developing your web site, it is very important to focus on what you know. Keep your content relevant to your anticipated users. When planning your web site, narrow your focus and then stick to it.
Limiting Design
Your web site design should help people find the information they are seeking. This is really two separate categories. First, you will want to make sure that you have a consistent design throughout your site. This can be accomplished through a template or cascading style sheet (more on this in another article). Secondly, you will want to keep your pages short, less than 1,000 words.
Keep vertical scrolling to a minimum — a sales page and blogs seems to be the accepted exceptions. Horizontal scrolling, however, is never acceptable. The “standard” width is currently designed to work on a 1024 x 768 monitor resolution. This amounts to about 960 usable horizontal pixels. Keeping your design narrow is ideal as it is difficult to read across wide columns of information. There’s a reason newspaper columns are so narrow! Continue reading
