Daily links about strategic Web design

By Kristoffer Bohmann, Bohmann Usability

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Tomalak's Realm is a news service delivering high-quality descriptions of news links about strategic Web design. Lots of features have been added to the stories, including:

Users can view content on multiple platforms, including the Tomalak homepage, in their email, as syndicated content, or on their Palm or Windows CE device (despite the small screens and low screen resolution of those devises).
Searchable archives are provided making it possible to go deeper into a subject.
Several stories are accompanied with related stories from the archives.

Described links on the homepage are presented in a fixed table that is rather small (around 400 pixels). This makes reading of daily links comfortable, while it becomes rather annoying when scrolling 224 described news links in one page.

Table width: 400 pixels

This suggest a trade-off in the design of lists: Users either get more readable lists (400 pixels) suited for few stories or browser-wide lists enabling better overview (and possibly improved by scannable text).

Follow-up comment: Tomalak's Realm has changed the page width to 600 pixels on all archive pages.

Kristoffer Bohmann

Daily links about strategic Web design

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