Jythier and perhaps a few others raise 'a concern' that when reading my articles that, hmm, let me find the exact words:
| Terp... almost all of your articles have the second half in the comments. |
To which I answered:
| Matter of preference and trying to think about what users might expect if they visit my blog. |
With that said, I'm following up here to see what READERs expect and prefer when they visit my blog.
Early on, I used to put 'an entire article' up in the body of the article area. I might have some thoughts to add to the article later, and possibly would add them to the article in the comments area, but for the most part the entire article was there to read without having to click somewhere else.
Over time though I realized that in looking at my the front page for 'my blog' http://terpfan1980.joeuser.com that the page was winding up very, very 'long'. Yeah, I know I am wordy S.O.B. and tend to run on at the keyboard and the mouth somewhat. What I also realize, partly from working in the printing business ages ago and doing page layout and typographical design work, is that there are reasons that newspapers never put all of the news on the first page. It gets too long winded in a single space and gets boring for the reader. Instead, in the newspaper business, there's the lead-in for an article on the front pages with a 'jump' to follow to get to the rest of the story.
Now, I realize this blog o' mine isn't a newspaper. It's a blog. It's my thoughts on whatever topics, and spaces (in the comments areas) for others to debate those thoughts, or offer their own thoughts on topics I may toss out for discussion. But, I still look at the front page of my blog and think it is far better to ask readers to click the link to get to the comments area to read the 'second half' (or more) of an article than it is to waste their time and space within the browser's main window to see what the topics of the day may be.
If I have 2 or 3 articles up in a day, why not make it easier for the reader to see what I'm ranting about all on one page where they can then jump over to see the rest of the article *and* any comments that others may have left.
That *and* being very important here. It is another of the reasons I tend to try to encourage readers to jump over to the comments area. Because that is where others may have offered their counterpoints and possibly even corrections for comments and points I made in the articles I have posted.
But, perhaps I'm wrong here. Perhaps my style isn't appropriate and instead I should bend to the will of the potential readers. Assuming those potential readers even care about popping over to my articles anyway as despite some protestations by some others (looks over in SanChonino's direction) I suspect that there are some people that aren't going to read my articles no matter how they are posted, though I'd also admit that there are some writer's articles here that I'm never going to be reading myself for an equal (if not more) variety of reasons.
