Effective use of White space (under development)

Effective page formatting can greatly increase readability and appeal.

Adding white space is just one method — Workshop materials prepared

by shipscript

Breaking up your Page

A page should not run on and on. A page is easier to navigate if it is

broken into groups of ideas, or sections with headings. Those sections

should then contain paragraphs that are smaller visual blocks. That way

viewers can skip around to the areas that most interest them. Web

visitors do not normally sit down and read a whole page, they tend to

skim. So use meaningful titles to pull them into relevant sections.

A page can be broken with titles, horizontal divider lines, photos,

tables, or colored sections. However, be careful that there is useful

content between those dividers. The only thing worse than a page that

runs on and on is a page that is diced up into unrelated little bits

that create a scattered mess. This interestingly divided page has lots

of white space and uses images, titles and lines to denote sections.