I know that quite a few web folks have been linking to this resource, but I think it’s utterly relevant and in my relatively short-span as a web designer, I have encountered this “phenomenon ” myself a number of times!
On a couple of web design projects I’ve had the pleasure in undertaking, I sometimes get requests to “make the page not scroll”, or “make sure that the page is above the fold”. The term comes from the printing world, where the fold would be the fold in a newspaper.
Not knowing much about the fold then, it took me a while to find out that what my clients meant was that they didn’t want users to scroll in their browser. Now, as Chuck Mallott’s article explains, the fold has very little bearing – as users have a variety of screen resolutions, especially on mobile devices.
Anyway, it’s certainly worth a read and for other web designers, a worthy addition to your decision making arsenal!
Read the article here.
