I realized awhile ago that I've remained neutral with my web design; I haven't learned anything, and all of my websites are starting to look the same. So I did what any one would do... I started doing more research; One of the things that I'm trying to get at with my web design is making it user friendly.
Now alot of people think that by knowing HTML they can throw together a website... and that is very wrong.
I just watched a video (like 2 minutes ago) about a research firm that did a study on eye movement and how we read. I think that is genius!
If you ask someone how they read a magazine they will probably tell you that they read from top to bottom, left to right. However, these studies show that we don't. We look at hot spots of the pages, and kind of archive them in our mind. For example; if you go to Seattletimes.com; and read some pages, your eyes will most likely travel from the gonzaga girl to the logo, to the FBI news story (or atleast thats the way my eyes traveled). With this information, web developers, tabloid producers, news people; can start to design for people. It doesn't matter how smart you are/think you are. Everyone scans... It's a way of life; you can through to see if there is anything worthy of reading.
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