Sue's Blog

Saturday, December 03, 2005

How has my essay changed when i tried to put it up on the website?

I'm not a big fan of reading long essays on websites.I think that at some point the reader becomes overwhelmed by a sea of words on their screen and lose interest. So for me, i found that i wanted to break it up a little.

First of all, i put paragraph headings. This way if the reader's eyes begin to get tired, they can just skim down to the bolder sections and say, "yea, this is the info i'm looking for.". It also helps if someone is trying to quickly find out information and don't want to go through a whole history on Netspeak.

I also broke the essay up into two pages, which were in effect two seperate essays. I feel this is important because it makes more sense. One one page you have an introduction and history, on the next link you have a more in depth essay. It's easy to find because the link is easily accessible.