[WEB4LIB] RE: Web Page Width - To Restrict or Not to Restrict

[Heather]

In addition to that 1997 Alert on useit.com, the Eyetrack studies are 
also about how people read on the Web: 
http://www.poynterextra.org/eyetrack2004/main.htm

--Heather Ebey

On Friday, March 18, 2005, at 08:38  AM, Beth A Reiten wrote:

> Brandon,
>
> I think you're referring to the report by John Morkes and Jakob 
> Nielsen,
> "Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web"
> (http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/writing.html).  Nielsen also 
> has
> an Alertbox called "How Users Read on the Web"
> (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html) based on this study.
>
> If not, I'd love to see the study if you can find it!
>
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> "Brandon Dennis" <bdennis at shreve-lib.org>
> Sent by: web4lib at webjunction.org
> 03/17/2005 04:14 PM
> Please respond to bdennis
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>         Subject:        [WEB4LIB] RE: Web Page Width - To Restrict or 
> Not to Restrict
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>
>> I don't have a link to the "How Users Read On The Web" report that was
> done by Sun(?) a couple years ago,
>
> Brandon