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Note to people who make decisions about content-based websites: Based on previous experiences with these kinds of features on websites, I half expected each pic
by joshuahedlund 14y ago
Note to people who make decisions about content-based websites: Based on previous experiences with these kinds of features on websites, I half expected each picture to be on its own page. If it was, I did not intend to click past the first one. However, in this case I browsed the entire thing, and am much more likely to share this URL with others.
- neilkelty 14y agoUnfortunately, most users of the Internet, will happily click through 50 slides to view the latest top 10 list. Damn the masses.
- HeXetic 14y agoEven better, the Atlantic's photo articles like this can be navigated with the arrow keys to go from one photo to the next.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- blahedo 14y agoEven worse, you mean. It breaks the standard navigational tools, so after I had hit pagedown several times, I pressed a right-arrow once to shift the page slightly and it skipped me all the way back to the top. It happened again later when I absent-mindedly pressed the right arrow again. This is totally broken.
- megablast 14y agoReminds me of the Boston big Picture, which also has gorgeous photos in such a format.
- pbburrell 14y agoIt's no coincidence. The Atlantic's "In Focus" blog is run by the same person who created The Boston Globe's "Big Picture" blog. Here's his personal site: http://www.kokogiak.com/index.php http://www.kokogiak.com/index.php
- WiseWeasel 14y agoOn the other hand, each page request uses a lot of bandwidth, and it's more difficult to split the load efficiently according to actual usage. A good compromise might be to load the first five or six pictures, and only load successive ones once the user has scrolled down past the first few.