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Not only that, but seeing the scrollbar tells you that there is more content that you can't see. This is especially useful if you made your modern front page s
by SamBam 6y ago
Not only that, but seeing the scrollbar tells you that there is more content that you can't see.
This is especially useful if you made your modern front page super fancy so that the above-the-fold space looks like a tidy complete package. Or if you have a sub-panel containing a list of something.
I make web sites for students. I've frequently found that, if it's necessary to have a scrollable list of something, I need to dynamically change the height of stuff so that the list starts with some list item partially peeking out over the fold, otherwise half the users with hidden scrollbars won't know to scroll and find more stuff.
- HeavyStorm 6y agoHeck, I'm not a student and I'm fooled by the lack of clear indication of additional content.
- bombcar 6y agoModern web pages get me on this every time - I filed multiple bugs on our new site because there was so much whitespace that I didn't realize there was more content below the fold. I suppose this has made "above the fold" more valuable, or perhaps mobile devices show so little content that everyone has to scroll ... I just realized that the "mobile-first" web has made using a computer with large screens a super-power. I have 17m pixels (and many more if I wasn't using Retina-like resolutions to get crisper text) - others I work with are stuck at barely over a million pixels.