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On a related note, what people's take on using "read more" style links on blogs (especially ones publishing longer form content)? Meaning, the main list of articles on a blog shows the first few paragraphs of the posts, and then have a "read more, or "continue reading" link for the full article. Does this make the blog's information more manageable, or is it also crappy design?
On a related note, what people's take on using "read more" style links on blogs (especially ones publishing longer form content)? Meaning, the main list of articles on a blog shows the first few paragraphs of the posts, and then have a "read more, or "continue reading" link for the full article. Does this make the blog's information more manageable, or is it also crappy design?
Why not just say something like "Read more about [link usability]" so you have the best of both worlds?
On a related note, what people's take on using "read more" style links on blogs (especially ones publishing longer form content)? Meaning, the main list of articles on a blog shows the first few paragraphs of the posts, and then have a "read more, or "continue reading" link for the full article. Does this make the blog's information more manageable, or is it also crappy design?
On a related note, what people's take on using "read more" style links on blogs (especially ones publishing longer form content)? Meaning, the main list of articles on a blog shows the first few paragraphs of the posts, and then have a "read more, or "continue reading" link for the full article. Does this make the blog's information more manageable, or is it also crappy design?
If the destination page doesn't jive with the previous context, then that's a problem with the two pieces of content and the very notion of linking them, not the link text itself.
It's probably also worth mentioning 3D Touch and how it can help the problem.
On a related note, what people's take on using "read more" style links on blogs (especially ones publishing longer form content)? Meaning, the main list of articles on a blog shows the first few paragraphs of the posts, and then have a "read more, or "continue reading" link for the full article. Does this make the blog's information more manageable, or is it also crappy design?
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Wasn't Click Here proven to be effective in testing? I swear I read that at some point. I always go with something like _Download the annual report (380KB PDF)_ rather than the client-suggested _Click here_ to download the annual report . But I think a combination was proven to be effective.
I remember reading that putting "click here" in banner adverts produced better click-through rates, as sad as it may sound. I can well believe that the same is true of links, though it ruins the page for screen readers (I went on some training for this once, which advocated link text exactly like your former example, and was told that its common practise for experienced people with visual disabilities to simply liste…
(I realize that it's probably less so when you start talking about accessibility, but I don't know much about that. :/)
On a related note, what people's take on using "read more" style links on blogs (especially ones publishing longer form content)? Meaning, the main list of articles on a blog shows the first few paragraphs of the posts, and then have a "read more, or "continue reading" link for the full article. Does this make the blog's information more manageable, or is it also crappy design?
I doubt that it is there for a usability reason. The browser window effectively hides content in a standard and predictable way. Additional content hiding rarely improves usability.