Good and Bad Web Writing

When browsing the web people like having a website that they can find needed information fast. They do not want to come across a web page with a lot of information in paragraphs just staring at you with nowhere to lead your eye. This can be overwhelming and make one not want to even begin reading the site.
A good example of a website that is overwhelming with a massive amount of words in a paragraph, I’m sure we all have experienced, is Wikipedia (wikipedia.org). No matter what you search in Wikipedia, it just gives you an abundance of information. Although you may be interested in the topic you searched, Wikipedia makes it very boring to read about. Often times I find myself going to a more visually interesting website with easy-access information or not even finishing one paragraph in Wikipedia.
Make sure if you are creating a website to not make it look wordy. If your page has a lot of information, be sure to chunk similar information and add titles and headings to break up the paragraphs. Most people will quickly read a shorter paragraph before they read a big paragraph that will take a lot of time to get through. Another element to help readers are making list. This will draw their eye to steps, ingredients, and information such as that. I believe if Wikipedia applied these elements in their web page it would be more visually pleasing and draw more viewers.
An example of a web page that has been written well is Texas Lions Camp (lionscamp.com). This website was created for a camp for children with physical disabilities and provides information for parents to register their kids. This information could easily be boring; however, they use correct elements to make it visually appealing. Texas Lions Camp used a title at the top of the page, smaller paragraphs to make it easy to read, headings that separated chunked information, links to extra material parents might want to know, and a list of dates for registration.
Using these elements made lionscamp.com pleasant visually and easy to find valuable facts. If they did not use such elements, parents would not want to read the page content and a kid with a disability would miss out on one of the best summers of his or her life. You do not want someone to miss out on what your website has to offer them.