Most blogs and web design understand how difficult it is to attract visitors to a website. In fact, most websites just moments to attract potential readers. Several factors have contributed to how a website attracts readers. These factors include: good written headlines, interesting content and design quality. While all these aspects are important, today our focus will be on a very specific, sometimes overlooked factor in the design of a website: "Read more" or "Continue reading" links, as follows a title or summary of an article.
Each site has its own way of asking the reader to click on the article link. Some sites have been very prominent in the links, others are a little tricky. Either way, Web sites and user interface designers think of some very creative and innovative ways to invite readers to read. Here, we will present 45 websites with excellent "read More" and "Continue reading" links in their designs. We hope that these sites will serve as inspiration for your future project or at least remind you not to ignore this important design element.
Best practices
In our present presentation, let's see why the "Read more" link is very important. They are important for several reasons, most importantly, because they enable designers to compress content on the home page. By compressing content, you have more content that fits in less space. This means that readers can scan the headlines more quickly and whether you can accommodate more information than times above.
In addition, the "Read more" link allows webmasters to more easily track the most popular content. Designers who put the entire article on the homepage may find it difficult to make the site's system administrator able to track the most popular articles and understand what users do not want to see.
Third, perhaps the most practical reason for the "read more" link on the website is money. The idea of making money on the website is that more readers click on the links, the more likely they will be to study and click on the ads. The "Read more" link can add up to one or even twice times as many page views as the website receives, making it more appealing to advertisers.
Now that we understand why the "read more" link is so important, let's investigate some of the best practices implemented.
1.1. To make text links stand out
Currently the most popular way to put forward "read more" links with simple text. The general approach is a link that is the bottom line, bold, bright, and sometimes marked with "signs." Text links on your site are easy to distinguish between general connections that are important and sometimes even overlooked by designers.
Tutorial9
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Smashing Apps
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David Airey
Freelance Switch
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Veerle ' s Blog
Rob Goodlatte
Douglas Menezes
Slashdot
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Kupferwerk
Dino Latoga
Elliot Jay Stocks
Sixrevisions
Viget
Design Moves Me
The White House
Yahoo News
Huffington Post
F-i
Red Nose Day
Ugsmag
Carrot Blog
Take the Walk
Fantesca
Concentric Studio
Medicated