And here is some helpful “Quotes” because they re much faster than some screen casts.
Beginner Mistakes to Avoid in website design.
I actually much prefer to scroll down a long page of text than to click through multiple windows. I always assumed that the driver for that was not user experience but artificially improving pageviews stats; I had no idea that there were people out there who actually prefer it. Perhaps it’s an American thing? You magazines are far more likely to have stories and articles abruptly stop and be “continued on page 134”. British magazines are much nicer: we start an article and then let you read the whole thing without having to flick through anything.
Hell, just use Wordpress and a free theme.
That link was hilarious! Is it published by The Onion? OMG, it must be!!
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I wrote a detailed review of his review, but then remembered the old adage, “If you don’t have anything constructive to say, don’t say it.” After acting on that memory, there wasn’t anything left. 
's all free publicity… init? 
Count me in with the crowd that can’t stand when articles are broken up into “pages”. That’s just a ridiculous carry-over from magazines that has no business being on the Web, in a context where a display device can just as easily present to you a 300 page document as a 5 page document. Just give me the chunk of text and let me middle-click to let it drift slowly as I read. Whenever I come across an article that is split up like that, I hunt for a “Print” button (which usually has a nicer looking copy of the article anyway).
I always thought that was only done for the advertising anyway, especially since it only seems to really be commonly used on sites that have a postcard sized content area surrounded by a two square feet of advertising.
Hrm. Wouldn’t it be more like £30 floating by with conversion rates the way they are?
Dude sounds kind of sad, actually. To quote my favorite movie: “And for what? For a little bit of money. There’s more to life than a little money, you know. Don’tcha know that? And here ya are, and it’s a beautiful day. Well. I just don’t understand it.”
Splitting pages came early because of page load times. When you were on a 14.4 k modem loading 35 graphics and 3K words would take way to long so people started splitting pages up.
As Broadband as taken over page load times is almost non-existent concern now but now concerns are mobile devices. Take a page that is 3k words add a left and right nav that is super long and then scroll the page forever and look at it on phone. You will need to scroll left. Scroll right (if zoomed in) and scroll down forever. If you RSS that helps but the best is a fluid design that compensates automatically for such a small screen. The problem there is though now your page is about 6X longer and on a phone you have to scroll forever which means if you lose your place or want to get back up to the nav bar you have to start flicking your screen like an angry flea flicker which takes a lot of time and causes a user frustration. I read only 1K words of the 3K and scrolled down for a good bit. I want to to read another article. I either have to scroll back up or all the way down for a nav bar or hit the back button (leave the page) to find a nav then leave again (unless you have a floating nav which will irritate everyone).
An example would be imagine if every time you had to start you car you had to put the key in the ignition then get out of the car, open the trunk. Close the trunk, roll down the passenger window then back up again and then you could start the car. You would sell the car.
Navigation is what is vital in website design and that is where it differs from print somewhat because of the importance of navigation being easily accessible more so in digital media than in print. A bad GUI can kill a good product.
Think of it like this.
In the beginning people used scrolls. (Scrolling all text on one page) The only navigation was the beginning or end. If you wanted to find something you rolled the scroll up or down. The longer the scroll the longer it would take to roll up or down if you were looking for something or “rewinding fast forwarding”. Then we used books (splitting content up so it is easy to move forward, backward, or jump right to a section by using page numbers, indexes, chapters, and tables of contents - early navigation) Then came digital books which tend to either mimic books exactly, are hybrid which use set page sizes but allow for continuous scrolling, or are fluid and will adjust to screen and device and allow custom settings. Alongside digital books also came web pages which tend to mimic digital magazines. Articles can be split, one long continuous article, jump around, all depending on the layout design but share one thing. They navigate different than a book because they are not one story on one subject (usually) but are a collection of stories, articles, and many times share page space with advertisements. BUT they still have one thing in common. Good ones are still easy to navigate and find the content you are looking for. If a user has to hunt for a navigation button if they are browsing through a webpage (like flipping through a magazine) and it takes more than a few seconds then the user is not going to find what they are looking for and is going to go somewhere else.
Digital Information for the common user has taken on the fast food mentality. They want it their way right away. Fast and convenient.
Now another example of communication would be the Cassette Tape (yes I had had hi-speed dubbing). The tape was awesome. Small, easy to carry, could store 30-45 minutes per side before having to flip the tape. This was like a scroll or continuous information. It played but in order to move forward or backward you had to press fast forward or rewind and wait. Then came the CD. You could play the whole thing unattended ( no side a or side b) You still had fast forward and rewind but you had one other neat addition. You could immediately skip to another song (The tape cassette with a modern nav). So the CD had 2 features that improved upon the tape. (1) No flipping sides just one long continuous play (2) The ability to jump to the next track without having to wait while you fast forwarded.
The tape is now pretty much non-existent. Just like the scroll was replaced by the book.
Now a real savvy web designer would realize that people come in different flavors, and when dealing with long bodies of text would split the pages up to manageable chunks BUT would also give a reader a choice. (usually a show all pages link or single page link) and give a link that would present a long article in one continuous page. That way the default is prioritizing better navigation by splitting the text up, but also offering readers another viewing option ( ye old scroll format). (then everyone is happy)
People love flexibility when it comes to digital media.
But why not make the nav the option and the scrolling page the default? You default on what you think the majority of people would want (knowing your market). The majority of people would prefer a book over a scroll or we would have scroll stores not book stores 
Also a web designer lives and dies by search results for a majority of customers. Split pages gives you a much better chance at reaching a broader audience than long continuous pages do. Especially if you split pages based on content or create new pages for articles (instead of putting all articles on one page).
A recent development that I have seen on a few sites is “show as a single page”. As a person who prefers a single page, this feature wins my loyalty.
Just about everything in your rant against long articles is really about the pitiful state of browser technology itself, not a problem with page design. Web pages should be providing content hooks that browsers can use to provide effective navigation. Navigation should be standard, 100% in the browser, and not some feature of the page that every designer has to replicate over and over themselves. Another large source for your rant seems to revolve around using a mobile phone to browse. Well, don’t be surprised if reading an article on a credit card sized screen with nothing but your finger to operate it, is awkward, but even in that substantial constraint, I can still envision features that would make life easier for everyone. There is a reader mode (which it sounds like you need to make more use of, for some of your gripes), that’s a start, but why not have an option for pagination, so that reading an article from the Web is like reading in Kindle.app? Why not make it so you can save that session and returning to it always does so where you left off (again just like Kindle.app), even set bookmarks in scroll or pagination mode, so you can return to a spot later? But the state of browser technology on mobile phones and tablets is so awful that there are separate programs for reading articles you find off the Web, like InstaPaper. Everything InstaPaper does, the browser should already be doing, and more. It should be a major part of its design concept to handle long pages.
So, no, I don’t think splitting up pages is under the remit of the content, and fingers should be pointed in the right direction if you get frustrated with a long article. Tap “Back” and lose your place? File a bug report with the browser software you’re using. That’s an inexcusable bug in a browser. Remembering where you were on the page when you navigated out is a core feature.
Anyway, returning to a context where one does have a decent browser—with such vital and basic functions as an End or PgUp key and a scroll bar available to it, and extensions that can make reading even easier—none of this is a problem. Then the problem becomes encountering sites that make you click on some little number “2” in tiny text in the middle of your read, and an inability to simply and effortlessly flick back to an earlier section to reference something you read three, no wait five? “pages” ago.
That’s the only annoying thing to me here, having to bother with a site’s navigation system just to read more than five paragraphs at once. If the only reason for that is to cater to people using postage stamps and/or a browser so dumbed down it doesn’t even have a scroll bar, to read pages, that doesn’t seem like a good argument to me. 
Yup, and I’ll be honest, I often don’t visit sites that I know to use pagination with no alternatives. It’s not that I’ll leave once I’m there, if the article is good it’s good, but if I know a site uses that method and I see the article is hosted there, I often just won’t even bother, I’ll find another syndication that is running it, or read something else.
I think Keith should send him a complimentary one of these:
And Keith also needs to send me an address for his lawyer so I can sue him for the 30 minutes I’ve just spent on Gary North’s website.
My eyes are bleeding. The blood has seeped into my keyboard prompting a full kernel panic. The plasma rivulets are also ruining my faux-pine desk surface, a small collection of specially curated toffee or toffee-substitute sweets that had huddled together for warmth by the furthest USB port, and last, but not least, the venal outpouring has prompted an allergic reaction in my invisible dog Mr Wuffleoffagus.
The jaw drop that met the ‘90 free books for download’ claim will also require extensive reconstructive surgery. I snorted so hard my British-made DerisionMeter exploded - and I strongly suspect three of my best ideas took the opportunity to exit stage nasal passage at this point. This in turn upset a small eucalyptus plant given to me by my aunt Beryl, which is now seriously thinking of taking his foliage elsewhere - we are in negotiations over a few drops of Floradex.
The total claim should be around 17.3 pfennigs, plus one green biro - preferably unchewed, although the cap can be a little bit nibbled as I do realise that they’re irresistible.
You mean like some forum sites…?