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Friday, October 2, 2009
Scroll bars and websites
Scroll bars and websites Your site has the scroll bars? It may not seem a particularly important issue, but it is. In fact, when it comes to website usability, the question of roles is one of the most important ones are out there. Tired of all those annoying scroll bar on web sites, documents, etc.? Do you want a larger screen and not pay $ 300? Well, here is a simple trick that many people have not even thought of: Change screen resolution. As you scroll to the user? One of the eteal questions of Web design is the question of whether users are fine with leaves, or if you hate it. In reality, the answer lies somewhere between the two: many users do not mind sliding off, but there are many people who not only slider. Most young people (with little regard fields) and very elderly people (with poor hand-eye coordination) are the two largest groups in this category, but also applies to persons who are new to the web. You should design your page so that scrolling is added, but is not essential for basic usability. The scroll wheel revolution. Since the creation of the Inteet, people are very sensitive to scrollable pages, thanks to the wheels of the mouse, and similar devices. You can navigate with a quick repair, rather than the inconvenience is accustomed. As a result, visitors are much more likely to access your site before, and it works to your advantage. However, one should not rely on them completely. Not entirely eliminate - Ma note. The answer, when it comes to sliding, it is too sensitive about it. Put all important in this situation, there to be achieved, without the smallest slider controlled. Give your users the choice whether to click or to scroll through the link between the individual parts of this article at the top of the page in a table of contents. In short, not to mention the scroller to scroll, but not to hide anything from people I do not want. Please, no horizontal scrolling! Whatever you do, but maintain the vertical scroll. From left to right scrolling on the site is an abomination. Users are not expected, the mouse can not wheel and the Web - not the browser for them. In short, this is a very, very bad idea. Every now and then some designers come together and try to make it work, you are nervous and innovative (after all, no one does), only a terrible site. In the history of the Inteet, so far, there has never been a good website horizontal scrolling, and you are not a designer produces a. Keep away from Flash scroll bars. Another common design error where the scroll bars to think that we can do better than the Web browser, and use the flash for non-standard scroll bars. If you could, as you create the look, is inevitably less useful to your visitors as a normal scroll bar would be. Your scroll bar is not immediately obvious what it is. E 'unlikely to work with the mouse or keyboard on wheels, and probably not even the user navigate by clicking on exactly as they wish. At the end of the development of a scroll bar that is perfect for you, but frustrating for everyone else. However, you may think ugly standard scroll bars, that people know how they work, and are used to it - do not want to lea something new to your site. Scroll bars are better than new pages. Whatever you have to scroll bars, is always a bad idea to replace them with layout. An article may be three or four pages long with the user to click on a button 'Next' to move from page to page, and that simply is not acceptable on the Inteet - in particular because on smaller screens, some sliding must. If you think that users dislike scrolling, then you have to understand that they do not like waiting to load new pages, even more: If your site requires them to wait more than a few seconds between the parties, are abandoning Article even if they are at the heart of their reading.
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