Re: Best practice for technical documentation page length on a website?

[Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com>]

procrastiwriter wrote:
> Understandably, some people are complaining that it takes too long to drill
> down and find information, and I agree that many of the sections could be
> combined into a single page (many pages are no more than a paragraph long).
> I'm comfortable with this, but in the back of my mind I have the words of a
> web developer ringing in my ears from years ago - "web users don't like
> scrolling, pages should be short and snappy".

Boxes and Arrows had an article about this just a few days ago, complete 
with lots of citations to actual user studies.  Scrolling is OK.

Blasting the Myth of the Fold
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of

Laura

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