The Scroll?
Should you be concerned with whether visitors to your website must scroll the page?
Everything that you want to present to a website visitor when they first access your home web page should be displayed within the immediate viewable screen space, without the need to scroll the web browser.
However, displaying supporting content after the scroll often helps retain visitors that normally would not go past the home page.
With the invent of blogs, and blog software like WordPress, scrolling has actually become a common function in web design and web page browsing.
Proponents of scrolling claim that scolling down a page is more efficient and user friendly than clicking through several pages. Opponents of scrolling present examples of how encouraging the use of the scroll can lead to exccessive volumes of content, resulting in a slow-loading webpage. Proponents always rebutt the previous claim with the currents statistics that 71% of Internet connected homes in America have broadband connections. Opponents counter by claiming that categorizing topics of interest into separate pages will create an organized hiearchy of information and minimize web page complexity and volume of content per page.
This continual tug of war between Scroll Proponents and Opponents has driven web page innovation to the Blog. A blog can have a very lengthy scroll, yet be tighly organized into Categories and Posts, because they are both useful. The primary feature that has driven the popularity of blogging is that anyone with an Internet connection can publish a blog. At third party blog hosts, like WordPress.com, people can create user accounts and blog to the world.
