Re: Another WP redesign

Newspaper columns are not all of uniform size. Layout editors choose one
width from within a certain readable range of column widths. Different
stories may be of different widths, but a particular story will keep to the
same width, as different widths would look strange. Of course if a story
jumps to another page, it can have a different width.

On the web the same principle applies that columns of text which are too
narrow (when pinched by photos etc) or too wide (single column on a wide
screen with browser at full width) then its probably going to make readers
unhappy.
-S
On Jan 28, 2013 4:27 PM, "Steve Bennett" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and have pages, but
> > screens are usually landscape and (the important bit) stretch
> > indefinitely vertically. A good example of the problem with doing it
> > like a newspaper is https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/
> > - brilliant article, but on a laptop screen the layout is just really
> > confusing.
>
> And newspaper layouts are handcrafted for exactly one width and
> height. It's hard enough to get articles to display nicely with
> embedded images and infoboxes with a single column - could that really
> work multi column? Maybe a better use of the extra horizontal space
> would be to expand some of the embedded images and infoboxes out of
> the text?
>
> I was going to point to theglobalmail.org as an interesting example of
> a multi-column layout on the web (horizontal scrolling!) but it looks
> like they've caved in and gone to a conventional one column vertical
> layout.
>
> Steve
>
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