For anyone involved in web development for news publications, one of the most important aspects of the website is its textual layout. Your site must be readable on a variety of devices, and, failing that, you should try to make it look great on at least one platform (usually the desktop browser)—typically other platforms will follow.
There are a few things to watch out for:
- You can have lines too close together—use line-height to give proper spacing/breathing room between consecutive lines of text.
- You can have paragraphs too close together—add some margins between paragraphs so they are divided visually.
- You can have too narrow a viewport for your content, meaning users spend more time scrolling than reading. (However, you don't want to have it too wide either—sometimes a semi-fluid layout can be useful).
