What’s more important for a website – layout or content?
Ok, so, what’s more important for a website: layout or content?
You can read (and discuss) my article here: Layout vs content.
01 Nov 09 at 5:57 PM | Internet | 3 comments
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Sigg3
Content content content.
A website can be read on a number of devices, some of which cannot render images or color, or no web 2.0 features, and some only plain text. Take away these things and people will STILL READ the pages. Why? Because they’re coming for its content.
That said, typesetting and accessibility is always something to keep in mind. But they are rather new focus areas. The primary goal has always been to spread the word. The content. (Case in point, those old hand-styled bibles which must have been hell to read but kept the content intact word-by-word.)
04 Nov 09 at 10:58 PM
Mariana
Well, I’m one of those who doesn’t have a great layout but I (try to) have a nice content.
I totally agree with you when you say “clothes we wear say nothing about who we are. Arguably, it shows who we’d like to be…” And that’s really not enough because you have to get to know the person to know who she is so as you have to really read the blog to know what it is about.
Most of blogs I like reading doesn’t have a ‘WOW Awesome!’ layout and obviously I keep reading them because of the content not the layout.
*loved the article!
10 Nov 09 at 12:55 AM
Rose
Not even an argument as far as I’m concerned. Content is key!
If a book has a nice cover, it can still be a shitty book.
But if a book has a shitty cover, it can still be a good book!
13 Nov 09 at 12:03 AM