o you like to design your Therefore, your visitors will be
website with scroll bars? much more eager to scroll on your
That might not seem very website than they used to be, and
important, however it is. In this works to your benefit.
reality, website usability and
the question of scrolling is one The answer, when it comes to
of the most important ones out scrolling, is to be nice about
there. it. Place everything significant
in a place that allows it to be
One of those everlasting found with no scrolling even on
questions of web design is small screens. Give your users
whether users are okay with the option of whether to click or
scrolling, or whether they scroll, by connecting to the
dislike it. In fact, the answer individual parts of the article
lies somewhere the middle: a lot at the top of the page in a table
of users don't mind scrolling, of contents.
but there are plenty of users who
still don't scroll. You should be Regardless you should keep your
building your website so that scrolling perpendicular.
scrolling isn't necessary for Left-to-right scrolling on the
basic usability,but gives web is not advised. Users are not
additionl value. expecting it, mouse wheels cannot
do it, and web browsers aren't
Ever since the early period of built for it. In short, it is not
the web, people have become much a good idea. Every once in a
more open to scrollable pages, while a designer will attempt to
thanks to mouse wheels and make it work, only to produce a
similar gadgets. These let them frustrating website. So far,
scroll with a quick flip, instead there hasn't been a good
of the hassle it used to take. horizontally scrolling website.
might think the original scroll
Another ordinary design error bars are ugly, people know how
when it comes to scroll bars is they work, and they're used to
to think that you can do it them.
better than the web browser, and
use Flash to create abnormal Even if you dislike scroll bars,
scroll bars. While you might like it's always a bad idea to replace
the look you generate, it will them with pagination. An article
certainly be less useful to your can effortlessly become three or
visitors than a normal scroll bar four pages long with the user
would have been. having to click a 'next' button
to get from one page to the next.
If you use flash on your scroll If you think users dislike
bar it won't be instantly scrolling, then you have to
familiar as what it is. It's not understand that they dislike
likely to work with mouse wheels waiting for new pages to load
or keyboard shortcuts, and you even more: if your site needs
probably won't even let users them to wait for more than a few
scroll by clicking in the seconds between pages, they'll
accurate way they want. You end get rid of articles even if
up designing a scroll bar that's they're in the middle of reading
perfect for you, but annoying for them.
everyone else. Even though you
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