The three main guidelines for writing for the Web are: - Be
succinct : write no more than 50% of the text you would have
used in a hardcopy publication - Write for scannability : don't
require users to read long continuous blocks of text - Use
hypertext to split up long information into multiple pages
Reading from computer screens is about 25% slower than reading
from paper. Even users who don't know this human factors
research usually say that they feel unpleasant when reading
online text. As a result, people don't want to read a lot of
text from computer screens: you should write 50% less text and
not just 25% less since it's not only a matter of reading speed
but also a matter of feeling good. We also know that users don't
like to scroll: one more reason to keep pages short. The screen
readability problem will be solved in the future, since screens
with 300 dpi resolution have been invented and have been found
to have as good readability as paper. High-resolution screens
are currently too expensive (high-e