DixieToday is formatted to make finding and reading as easy as possible. We have broken the current web page format to do that.

Finding and reading is from left to right. What we are used to away from computers. The natural way.

In the beginning scribes wrote on scrolls rolling the scroll from top to bottom as they read. This meant endless scrolling if they wanted to skip around. Hard to know where.

Years passed, then: progress! They put the text in blocks and scrolled from left to right. The blocks (pages) could be numbered and indexed, making it faster and easer find what they wanted and to know where they were.

Then (Progress!) someone folded the long scroll into an accordion and the folded "pages" could be turned as they were read. Reading from left to right.

Finally, (Great Progress!) the left hand side of the accordion was bound together and the right hand side cut into leaves still reading from left to right.

Viola! The Book (Codex) was born.

Progress: The dixie today web page Now scrolls from left to right. You always know where you are. It's easer to concentrate on and read the contents in each box (page) on the page. It is formatted for maximum iPad efficiency. No visual noise!

According to New York Times "Bits" Blogger Nick Bilton we have the format right!

"So what’s better than a page flip? Ironically, it could be the page scroll, an interaction that was essentially eliminated when long print scrolls were replaced centuries ago by bound books.

Before I started writing for the Bits blog I worked at The Times as a user interface specialist, exploring interaction designs for reading digital text on e-readers.

After a number of design experiments and mock-up concepts I found that the page turn served one purpose: to remind readers of the printed page while they use a digital screen. But it wasn’t necessarily the most efficient way to read long-form text.

After a while, the digital page flip can seem annoying and inefficient. In the end some of the best results came from scrolling through content, where the reader’s eyes don’t have to adjust to the page, but instead the page adjusts to them."

New York Times - Turning the Page on the Page Turn - Jul.9.10

Carpe diem is a phrase from a Latin poem by Horace (Odes 1.11).

It is popularly translated as seize the day, although a more literal translation of "carpe" would be "pluck" (pluck the day), as in the plucking of fruit.

"Leuconoe, don't ask — it's dangerous to know —what end the gods will give me or you.

Don't play with Babylonian fortune-telling either.

Better just deal with whatever comes your way.

Whether you'll see several more winters or whether the last one Jupiter gives you is the one even now pelting the rocks on the shore with the waves of the Tyrrhenian sea—be smart, drink your wine.

Scale back your long hopes to a short period. Even as we speak, envious time is running away from us.

Seize the day, trusting little in the future."

– Horace

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