If you're presenting text documents on your pages, give some thought to making them easy to read.

The viewing area of your browser is much smaller than a normal printed page, so you may have to reformat your documents to fit this new environment, rather than just dropping an existing document into your HTML editor.

Don't run text the full width of the screen. This creates long lines of text that are difficult to read. Text also needs air around it, to breathe. That's why most printed documents have margins.

You can easily solve these problems by using the "Blockquote'' tag, which gives a margin on both sides of the page. You can nest Blockquotes to vary the width as necessary.

You can use tables to create more complex text layouts such as columns.

You can use dictionary lists ('DL') as a simple way of formatting text that requires indentation.

Don't use long paragraphs of text. It's hard to read these in printed form and, for some reason, even harder on to read on a computer screen. Try to keep paragraphs to four sentences or less.

If you specify a text font other than the default, make sure that the font (or its equivalent) is one that is standard on your visitors' computers. And when specifying one of these fonts, don't forget to specify the equivalent font names for other operating systems and hardware platforms as well.

And try not to put links in your text, especially in the middle of a sentence or paragraph. If you have links that relate to your text, put them at the end, like footnotes. Give your visitors a chance to read your text before sending them somewhere else.