Do you think that a "Page 2" would make long articles on SmashingMag easier to read?

17 Comments

  • Scott - 12 years ago

    NO. Keep the article to one page but move the comments to a second page.

    Or just make a two part article, released on different days.

  • Jaz - 12 years ago

    On my train commute I get sporadic 3g coverage. Preferable to load long pages I can spend time scrolling down through.

  • James W - 12 years ago

    For pages with a lot of content, rather wait until a user scrolls to the bottom of the first part of content, then load the rest underneath. This is the same as a twitter feed where more load as you scroll. I often avoid any article that is split up into many pages.

  • Clinton - 12 years ago

    I actually get quite annoyed by articles which make me go to page 2. If you do, please provide an option for reading the entire article on a single page :)

  • kvd - 12 years ago

    We're developpers. We like looooooooooooooooooong pages

  • Liam - 12 years ago

    It takes less than a micro second to move my index finger to scroll. So why would you want to click "page 2" and wait 2-3 seconds before the page loads then have to scroll down to the article?

  • Nathan - 12 years ago

    Translated: "Would you guys be really annoyed if we increased our ad impressions and page views at the sacrifice of readability, convenience and your sanity?"

    At least you asked!

  • Christian Krammer - 12 years ago

    Multiple pages for an article ABSOLUTELY annoy me! The only benefit (for the site owner) are the increased pageviews. For the user there are none.

  • tp - 12 years ago

    with 1 long page i can push it with 1 click to my eBook reader

  • Mark Jones - 12 years ago

    The only benefit of breaking an article into multiple pages is the ability to bookmark a specific point within the article... but that doesn't really compensate for the annoyance of HAVING multiple pages for a single "piece" of content.

  • DUNCAN - 12 years ago

    1 page is best, scrolling is no problem and you can easily find what you're looking for (cmd+f)

  • Helge-Kristoffer Wang - 12 years ago

    In my opinion; it all depends on how long the article is. If I gotta read like 100 meters down the screen, yeah; then I think separating the article into smaller chunks would be a good idèa.

    However, I also think it depends on the website layout.

  • OkkE29 - 12 years ago

    Scrolling is way faster/easier/better than clicking back and forth between 2 pages.

  • Jesse - 12 years ago

    I hate reloading a page more than scrolling down a page.

  • James - 12 years ago

    Scrolling makes long articles easy to read.

    I can't stress how much I hate paginated articles, often I associate them with cheap websites trying to ramp up ad impressions rather than improve readability.

    J.

  • Amit Das - 12 years ago

    It's very easy that there's only one page article postings on your blog. Page 2 is very irritating.
    Suppose, we are in a later portion of an article, let's say that's on page 2, then if in middle we had to refer to some link/ text/ reference mentioned earlier in the article, we would need to go back to page 1 and see - very inconvenient.

    Regards,

  • Dil - 12 years ago

    No, cos if you're referencing previous parts of the article, you'll have to click back and forth, rather than scrolling up or down, which in that sense is easier

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