Ever Wondered What Your Users Looked at First?

[MikeSand]

This forum thread discusses the SitePoint article 'Ever Wondered What Your Users Looked at First?' by Francis Till.

"We know reading online is different from print but did you know that 78% of users look at text before they look at graphics. Find out more surprising results from the Poynter-Stanford eye-tracking study."

[redux]

excellent article...finally all those myths like "scrolling is bad / don't have anything important under the fold" are debunked. they certainly do not apply to every site, like some other usability "experts" would have us believe.
inspiring read...may have to send this to my manager

[TheOriginalH]

A very good read indeed