Posted 12:12 PM by Gene

Things bloggers do to make themselves unreadable:

1. Post copy and backgrounds of almost identical colors (i.e., light-green copy on a moderate-green background);

2. Use no breaks, so the reader must wade through endless paragraphs;

3. Use narrow columns so you have to scroll all the way down the page to complete the blogger's thought;

4. Use double-spaced lines that take up the width of the browser window, so the reader has to scroll and scroll and scroll;

5. Clutter up their pages with boxes, insets, photos, emoticons, etc. etc.

6. Link to other sites (usually blogs) with lots of photos, thereby requiring a long wait, and if the reader scrolls too soon the page goes herky-jerky and all over the place;

7. Use invisible scroll bars, so you have to guess how to scroll down the page.

I'm sure there are more, but these are the first that come to mind.