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29th May 2008

Client vs. Content

Well, that’s what it seems like sometimes when working with a client who has determined “they’ll do the content”, only to have the site held up (for months, a year?) as we wait for… content.

I’m going to attempt this on my next large project. We have a designer, a developer and client services person involved, why wouldn’t we have an editor?

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7th May 2008

Web Users Don’t Read

They scan. And this shouldn’t be news to anyone building websites – Web users don’t read. And Jakob Nielsen supports it with his latest post to Alertbox.

“Summary: On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.”

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Ellen Kanner is a web consultant for higher education, non-profits and beyond through Kanner Kreative.com. She prides herself on creating straight-up user-centered designs, solid information architecture providing functional and interesting web-based experiences. Ellen provides consulting in all areas of web design, development and social media, and formerly was the Web Producer/Designer at Dartmouth College.
Her adventures, musings about web stuff and higher ed, along with random thoughts are contained herein. The views expressed are hers alone and not connected to anyone else with whom she is affiliated. What I read and follow on a regular basis. ✉