Print newspaper
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Online

Designing for online and print varies from one another in terms of the layout and amount of information provided. According to Nielson (1999), “In print, your document forms a whole and the user is focused on the entire set of information”. The set of information on print are easily read while information online is divided into sections pertaining one section to another. Besides that, readers prefer to read shorter post online because the percentage of readers reading online is 25 per cent slower than reading prints like newspaper (Nielson 1999). Often readers will browse through the online pages without having to read them thoroughly because they only need to get the information that they want (Morkes & Nielson 2007). Therefore, blogs must be short and precise. However, different readers have different reading preferences as their level of making meaning out of the text depending on “… the socio-cultural context of the text production” (Walsh 2006, p.25). On the other hand, reading trends are now changing where “… the written text is no longer structured by linguistic means through verbal connectors and verbal cohesive devices” (Kress & Van Leeuwen 1998). Instead, it is depending on the page structure including the elements, visuals and graphic presented on the page itself (Kress & Van Leeuwen 1998).