{"id":608,"date":"2009-07-15T04:39:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T10:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.edynamo.com\/2009\/07\/web-page-scrolling-bad-design-or-not\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T04:39:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T10:39:11","slug":"web-page-scrolling-bad-design-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edynamo.com\/blog\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Web Page Scrolling – Bad Design Or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scrollling from side to side on a webpage, consider it bad web page design?<\/p>\n

One of the problems with web designing is fighting between what works well and is viewed as good content by popular search engines compared with what the website owner really wishes to see.<\/p>\n

A good webpage designer has to consider many things and there are plenty of differing opinions as to what is best. We have our own reasons for what we feel is best but ultimately leave the decision to our clients.<\/p>\n

It is painful to have to scroll up, down or sideways to navigate page content but there are good reasons for the pain of scrolling from the perspective of a website owner and also some things that can be done to minimize the scrolling. In a major newspaper you pay according location. For example It is proven that higher sales are made on the right hand pages. On a webpage this is the same case, premium space is found on the left hand top corner. Now because of small screens it used to be the practice to keep content in a table and centre it on the page. This would make it fit in the centre no matter the size of the screen. I still like this when I am reading content myself however there is a lot of rental space left on the screen going to waste. Money can be made on that space or redirection to similar content you may want linked in.<\/p>\n

If you still prefer centred tables I think I should point out that not all search engines include content found in a table or layered object and so those headings and contents go to waste when it comes to site rank. On the other hand a page with all its contents stuck on the left side and and optimised for a small laptop screen looks terrible on a large monitor. So the idea is to fill up that dead area with advertising and the like. Our preferred layouts do not use iframes, layers, content tables or header and side frames. We have found a simple page thought out thoroughly works better even though the visitor might find themselves doing a bit of scrolling and that the scrolling can be kept to a minimum if you keep the main page content in the places most seen. Keeping the page to a fairly regular size also helps the visitor get the hang of where the content will be found.<\/p>\n

Also code driven images or additional scripting set into a webpage, such as an iFrame, can really hurt a web pages search engine ranking. This is because the search engines do not include any text in that fram as being part of the web page. So a webpage with a main heading and an iFrame full of writing, simply appears as a page with a single heading on it. And that is not seen as good content so down the ranking you go. As a result, it would have been better to let your site visitors scroll around than not to get read in the first place because they couldn’t find you on the search engines.<\/p>\n

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