A collection of stuff

If you have complex information it’s important that you don’t over simplify it, instead arrange its design to help user navigate and absorb that information.

Like Andy Rutledge says, people will read through text when it’s presented in a way that makes finding the relevant information easy, the act of reading restful and, of course, that the text is relevant, engaging and clear. No one will read through boring and confusing pieces of text, long or short.

clipped from www.andyrutledge.com Volume Doesn’t Matter May 6, 2007 Despite what you’ve read, the volume of text on your page in and of itself has no impact on the success of your site. Statisticians will tell you otherwise, because they observe specific behaviors and perceive patterns and think that their perceptions easily translate into concrete conclusions. They’re usually wrong on this score. The fact is it doesn’t matter what volume of copy you have if the copy is well designed.

We’ve finally unveiled the new Maytree website. Besides the friendly URL’s there is now a cleaner design and content that is better organized. We’ll be ironing the occasional wrinkle and adding new features in the next few days, so keep visiting.

I developed the Wordpress template from a design provided to us. Version 2.5 of Wordpress makes things much easier than I thought they would be and I was able to find some very cool plugins to do things such as the sitemap and navigation menus. It’s not perfect, I’ll try to improve it as I get the time, but the end result is pretty solid, good, semantic html markup and nice css (although that could use a clean-up as well.

By the way, you better like it!