page size

Web site users can quickly become bored if they have to scroll through huge amounts of text or wait long periods of time for graphics to download.

Users have screen sizes that can vary from 640x480 pixels to 1280x1024 pixels, which further complicates the situation.

When developing web pages for the web site, designers should develop pages for the smallest screen size so that the user doesn't have to scroll the text horizontally as well as vertically. This means setting the page width, or table width, to slightly less than 640 pixels.

Try to restrict the text on the page to no more than one-and-a-half computer screen sizes so the user doesn't have to do much scrolling vertically.

This may mean that there will be more than one page on a topic. If there are multiple pages there is a good chance that these pages will also download faster, as there will be fewer graphics on any one page.

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