Eye rant
I spend a lot of time on the Web, and a lot of those hours are taken up by reading blogs. Yes, I am one of those bloggers who actually read blogs! Lots of them! I hear that people like that are hard to find these days. But that’s not the subject of this post.
My blog was created using a template offered by Blogger, which I tweaked a tiny bit, mostly to change colors. I am no designer and I don’t know much about page layout but as a reader, there are certain things I cannot stand, things that will make me stop reading a blog after two sentences, not because of the content but because it is simply unreadable. And that’s too bad. Why do people still insist on:
-Using the tiniest font possible?
-Using a noisy background?
-Using the tiniest font possible on a noisy background?
-Using the full width of a page to publish their text instead of wrapping it around and making it easier to follow the lines?
-Writing very very long blogs and publishing them using the full width of a page?
-Choosing a dark font on a dark page? Or a pale font on a pale page? Please give me contrast!
In our desire to be original and different, have we forgotten that it is not fun to read more than a few paragraphs on a screen, and that there are simple things we can do to make it easier for our readers? Or do we not care whether people actually read us?