In How to Write for the Web by Jakob Nielsen and Writing for the Web by John Morkes are way different from each other. The first one is all chunky and the second one is more organized. They both teach you how to write for the web in order to attract readers to READ instead of scanning.
Nielsen gives readers an additional link in the chunky text in order to avoid reading the print text that he shows in his web; he probably does this to make sure that we readers know the difference of reading text from a book and reading on the web; also, Morkes shows and tells (in web text) readers some advise where web readers like me enjoy reading because it has bullets and it is easier for the eyes to read and friendlier because Morkes is having web surfers to read his website.
In Nielsen’s link and Morke’s web both show that they are short in length giving readers the advantage of not scrolling down or up too much. But the best one I’ll use as basis for my Multimedia Project will be Morke’s because it caught my attention into reading more for it was shorter. But thanks to Nielsen’s link, I know what to avoid in my multimedia project, such as, having a table for math differences and percentages instead of having math problems in huge paragraphs and get web surfers o figure out. However, I think that Jakob Nielsen did a good job from having the printable text web to the readable one.
As for my Home page, I will have a brief introduction and a “Table of Contents”, just like Morkes has on his web, because it is easier to surf on the page site, plus readers are able to choose which ones they want to see first. But the usable feature that he does not show is that it lacks a table of contents on the top of each of the themes. And this is one of the things that my Multimedia Project will not lack.
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