Strategy: Choosing a good layout and colour for wikis and blogs

6 Keywords: Colour Blindness, Colour Deficiency, Red/green, Web Colours, Wikis, Blogs

"We do use wikis, blogs and online networks.  Wikis for work to help each other, blogs not so much... I use wikipedia every day.  I am always looking up stuff, whether it be work related or personally related to find out about subjects. If I’m doing it for university work, and I’m going to the sources at the bottom, I will dig deeper and I will take the sources off them – the references off that, and I’ll go down that road."

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"Here is an example of a wiki with a good layout and easy colours..."

well laid out wiki example

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"Sometimes I find the layout on wikis and blogs is very cluttered and if there is too much colour it does not make for easy reading."

- Jim

Tip

'Researching with Wikipedia' is Wikipedia's own warning page about how to use their service for academic research purposes. As they say; "Wikipedia can be a great tool for learning and researching information. However, as with all sources, not everything in Wikipedia is accurate, comprehensive, or unbiased."