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Colored text can also be used for emphasis, and hypertext anchors stand out by virtue of being blue and underlined

Use highlighting and emphasis to make important words catch the user's eye.

Use meaningful rather than cute headings (i.e., reading a heading should tell the user what the page or section is about).

Nested headings also facilitate access for blind users with screenreaders

Structure articles with 2 or even 3 levels of headlines (a general page heading plus subheads - and sub-subheads when appropriate).

Web writers have to acknowledge this fact and write for scannability: Skimming instead of reading is a fact of the web and has been confirmed by countless usability studies. Instead, users scan text and pick out keywords, sentences, and paragraphs of interest while skipping over those parts of the text they care less about. Scannabilityīecause it is so painful to read text on computer screens and because the online experience seems to foster some amount of impatience, users tend not to read streams of text fully. High-resolution screens are currently too expensive (high-end monitors in commercial use have about 110 dpi), but will be available in a few years and common 10 years from now. The screen readability problem will be solved in the future, since screens with 300 dpi resolution have been invented and have been found to have as good readability as paper. We also know that users don't like to scroll - one more reason to keep pages short. As a result, people don't want to read a lot of text from computer screens: you should write 50% less text and not just 25% less since it's not only a matter of reading speed but also a matter of feeling good. Even users who don't know this human factors research usually say that they feel unpleasant when reading online text. Reading from computer screens is about 25% slower than reading from paper.

Use hypertext to split up long information into multiple pages.

Write for scannability: don't require users to read long continuous blocks of text.

Be succinct: write no more than 50% of the text you would have used in a hardcopy publication.The 3 main guidelines for writing for the web are: