Andrew Bowden wrote:
<>A less cynical way can be explained on the subject of web usability. Usability experts will tell you that many users get rather daunted by very long pages full of text, so the way round it is to split the article over several pages.
Which is something I've always found odd - I prefer all the content on a single page (especially as having the content spread across multiple web pages makes it difficult to review earlier material). It's why I find IBM's DeveloperWorks one of the better developer sites on the net, as each article is on a single page. I tend to dislike the ones that separate their articles into several pages (webmonkey would be an example, but there are countless others).
Maybe it depends on your target audience, or maybe it's old advice from when looking at long pages of text on a computer was a fairly new experience to a lot of people. However, it is difficult not to get cynical as it does seem like the sites that use a single page are the ones that are less dependent on advertising.
Scot
