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Be Succinct! (Writing for the Web)

 

>>>In an article entitled "Be Succinct! (Writing for the Web)" by Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen describes that there are three main guidelines for writing for the web:

1) Be succinct: write no more than 50% of the text you would have used in a hardcopy publication

2) Write for scannability: don't require users to read long continuous blocks of text

3) Use hypertext to split up long information into multiple pages

 

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