Elle's Writing and Articles

[Elle (Elle Stone)]

@afre

The problem with the top-to-bottom paradigm, especially when the text width is narrow, is the text becomes a very tall wall and unpleasant to read and scroll through; therefore, challenging to follow. For this reason, newspapers tend to layout the articles with narrow columns, in short sentences that are spaced out like paragraphs. Body text is also simple, packed and hyphenated. If there are lists, they aren’t longer than 1-2 short (incomplete) sentences. And so on.

You make excellent points. On the one hand, making the material on my website more readable is an ongoing struggle. On the other hand, I’m not planning to rewrite the articles to meet the “attention required” level of a newspaper being casually read on a mobile phone.

@afre

Edit tonality and color separately using high bit depth GIMP

The boxouts on this page don’t appear to be responsive to me. On a mobile device (Android, Firefox), I am unable to scroll or zoom to see the rest of the box.

Thanks! for letting me know. I fixed this article so the images now resize when the screen is smaller. I also removed the frame around the images. So no more “appearance of a box-out”. I plan to do this with all the articles on my website, will require rewriting the css.

@afre

If the article becomes unwieldy, it may be a good idea to include a table of contents for the sections themselves. But then, it might be a good idea to split the article or rewrite it.

I agree, shorter articles are easier to read. Agreeing is one thing, finding the time and energy to rewrite my website is another!