{"id":257,"date":"2003-06-25T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/06\/25\/105657762042484414\/"},"modified":"2003-06-25T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-25T22:47:00","slug":"105657762042484414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/105657762042484414\/","title":{"rendered":"105657762042484414"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eye rant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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&rsquo;s not the subject of this post.<\/p>\n<p>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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s too bad. Why do people still insist on:<\/p>\n<p>-Using the tiniest font possible?<br \/>\n-Using a noisy background?<br \/>\n-Using the tiniest font possible on a noisy background?<br \/>\n-Using the full width of a page to publish their text instead of wrapping it around and making it easier to follow the lines?<br \/>\n-Writing very very long blogs and publishing them using the full width of a page?<br \/>\n-Choosing a dark font on a dark page? Or a pale font on a pale page? Please give me contrast!<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&rsquo;s not the subject of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/105657762042484414\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">105657762042484414<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}