In life things happen in three’s.

You may find a dollar on the street, then get a free lunch the next day by accident at your favorite lunch eatery, and the following day you might be walking home and get the walk sign along your whole trip and just make the train right when you were hoping to.

Is this all by coincidence?

Well I don’t think so. I just think that my streaks happen in three’s. After the streak is over it may take awhile for another one to come back.

I think the internet has some similarities to “my rule of 3’s” if there are more than three links my eyes tend to blur them out. If there are more than three related posts I blur them out, if there are more than three comments I tend not to read and further.

Well just think about it we get we trained ourselves to read when is relevant to our topic of interest. It is more than likely you won’t even read this much of my post here.

If your website has more content than a header, body, and nav it can be difficult to find what the purpose of being here might be.

Trends I see online is that it can be very hard arranging content in a readable fashion that can feature advertisements and related posts in such limited space on one page. I’ve seen sites I visit daily play around with their sub page layout constantly for social media features and related links. It kind of makes me sick because I can’t stand the layouts at times.

With all these sub page redesigns I think there should be a theme among good designs, but I think they change so frequently that it really is hard to judge what is good and bad when it changes to often.

A good sub design utilizes it’s space and links for the spot on the page, and doesn’t clutter images or advertisements. You want to think of related content almost like the content it’s self because it can get you more page time and higher click through rates, and might attract returning traffic.