The topic is: Too Much Text

It's a common tendency — especially for beginning designers — to try to cram every piece of information on one page. After all, a single web page can, technically, go on and on — forever — and since HTML lets you create internal anchors using the "#" symbol, it's especially tempting to make long pages. Sometimes, you have to make a long page — if you're creating an alphabetical listing but, more often than not, it's better to break the document up or try to condense it using categories.

There's some new research out that suggests it's OK to have long sections of text. However, I don't believe they're referring to the page above.

Above is the very first page I ever created — a page that definitely sucks and sucks big. Besides trying to cram every piece of information onto one page, I made many other design flaws. I'll mention just a couple.

  1. I have the ACN logo at the top, not the Lightspeed Net logo. Duh.
  2. All the logos are sucky graphics — I wasn't using Photoshop.
  3. I should have used a background color — preferably white.