Jon R Wilson's Blog | Thoughts on product design (+more) » wordpress http://jonrwilson.com/blog Jon's Thoughts Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:08:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Optimal width test http://jonrwilson.com/blog/2009/09/optimal-width-test/ http://jonrwilson.com/blog/2009/09/optimal-width-test/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:59:27 +0000 admin http://jonrwilson.com/blog/?p=7 The optimal width of paragraph text is supposed to be 50-75 characters.  According to Smashing Magazine’s typography study, 75-85 is more popular.  Lets see what my 3/4 of the way across spacing gives me.

We’ll start with forty:

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fifty (optimal):

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sixty:

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seventy:

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eighty:

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And hopefully using all numbers doesn’t throw anything off.

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A discouraging realization is the fact that the formatting is completely ruined if any of the side bar links are clicked on, which means that I’m going to have to create more div’s in other .php files to set them in line.

I also think that I’m going to remove the “Pages” link from the sidebar, but keep the about page as a link from the footer, after I change “contact” from a mailto: link to “about.”  This is due to feedback I received from Garrett Helm, who along with many others doesn’t like “mailto:” links since on windows computers they tend to launch outlook, which isn’t useful for those with browser based email clients.

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