Gale, Creating a website that researchers will find useful takes a lot of decision making and sometimes trial and error. Eye-appeal and frills are two different issues. A pleasing use of color and an easy to navigate page are essential. And font size is an important decision because of sight impaired researchers. Backgrounds that are busy also make it difficult for those researchers to discern what is text. Large cemeteries make load time a real concern and researchers lose patience if they have to wait too long for a page to become visible. In the end, the CC's have to decide what is right for their individual sites. No right or wrong, just what they feel right for the site they maintain. Shirley On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2014, at 12:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Page length is very important. I think newspapers use the term "below the > fold" to refer to items on the bottom half. People don't like to scroll and > pay less attention to items they have to scroll to see. That means most of > my site is not getting the attention it deserves. > << > > Gina, > > I have two different thoughts on page length. I understand wanting to see > it all with minimal effort but the tradeoff is a LOT of page turning. For > example, I look at cemetery pages that have the alphabet for me to choose > which page to "turn" to, and then there are sites with the entire cemetery > listed alphabetically on one page. > > My preference is the latter but there is not much difference in the time > or effort to locate the record you want. > > On font size I agree bigger is better IF you are trying to sell something. > In our case we only have free information. My goal is to make this > information clear and accurate with no added frills to make it more > "attractive." To me this becomes a distraction to serious research. > > Gale Gorman, Robertson County > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >