There are excellent daily newspapers and in-depth magazines that make a valid contribution to the debate and to the formation of an objective public opinion on the major current issues, but which are highly questionable in the arrangement of their contents on the page:
Laypeople: example of content organization on page
The screenshot you just saw is of the home page of Laici.it, an authoritative in-depth periodical that from the point of view of content design shows some gaps that limit its readability . This is evident on the main page of the the benefit of using our database site, but the problem persists also in the various internal pages. In particular, you can see the classic “wall page” where:
The text, despite having some bold words that “break up” the entire page, is difficult to read as there are no spaces between one paragraph and another.
The font used is small, despite the high density of words within a small space.
There is no left alignment that helps the eye to have a reference, when it scrolls the text and moves from one line to the next. This choice goes in the opposite direction to what happens in most online newspapers and magazines, and to what the user accustomed to learning news on the web now expects.
If we take as a term of comparison another authoritative daily newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera , and an in-depth article written by Mario Monti, you can immediately notice how the title is accompanied by a short subtitle, which precedes the image of the article.