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If you are making Image Heavy Article browser, the name itself tells you what is the right thing to do. By article, we mean Text and readable content which may further have images, videos etc - but if you take article out, its simile image gallery about a subject.
Your objectives of making this app might advocate heavily to give prominence to images and ...
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Line length readability suggests that each line should have 50-60 characters (or 75 max) per line for optimal reading experience.
The left paragraph has ~100 characters per line, whereas, the right one has ~50-60 characters per line. I find the right one to be easier to read.
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Internet users are very much used to one (text) column layouts. Depending on your target group (e.g. web developers) you might want to break with this convention to underline individuality.
For the web, mainly consumed with desktop computers, yes, this layout is never going to work as well as other possibilities. The experience may be better on tablet ...
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Very long lines of text are hard to read, and people tend to make mistakes when finishing one line and wanting to move to the next line. Multi-column formats help deal with this problem, but multi-column layouts are not appropriate for every situation.
Multi-column articles work well when you don't have to scroll to see the bottom of each column. Think of ...
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Maybe Paul Lewis wants his blog look like a newspaper to make it more institutional. If so he should have used drop caps and indented lines, and not a (sub)title to start the article.
Those elements serve the reading, that is why they are still used in nowadays newspaper , they are less about aesthetics and logic than readability.
Also he might think ...
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Readability is everything
Smashing Magazine conducted a Typographic Study for best User Experience. What they found is plain clean backgrounds with standard type treatments tend to work best. People will typically have an easier time reading what they're familiar with. There is no one set rule for the number of characters per line. It depends on the amount ...
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A few suggestions:
Use different fonts/colours for breadcrumbs and body content. This look the same and it's not easy to differentiate where sections starts
Separate sections, title and content so it's easier to notice scan through in case the user doesn't want to read all
Don't add any background (zebra) to the images, it's just noise for the eyes
You ...
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The purpose of zebra striping is (with arguable success) to connect items in a row that are a distance apart...often as you'd see in a table and where scanning (rather than reading line-by-line) is often a goal.
Item Item Item
But a paragraph of text has no such problem--the lines of text, themselves, make ...
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Using zebra stripes in a paragraph is not a good idea. Zebra striping is a solution for improving readability of tabular data and even that is a debated area - http://alistapart.com/article/zebrastripingdoesithelp
There is no repeating structure in the words of a paragraph, which is a good thing since it makes lines easier to distinguish. When you use zebra ...
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I think you're trying to solve a readability problem the wrong way.
Line length (measure) is your real problem. The number generally advised for a readable measure is about 60-70 characters. Cut the measure to about 60% of it's current length and you'll find you have far less trouble. The other way to solve it is a bigger font size ... that would be really ...
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