Always One More Page On The Herald Website
I noticed that on the Boston Herald website, many of the articles spill over into an extra page and when you click to the next page there is only one or two lines of the article left. It seems to me they could just fit the entire article on one page, but they try to spill it over to two pages a lot to increase page hits/add revenue.
Here is a classic example of what I mean: http://celtics.bostonherald.com/celtics/view.bg?articleid=1015877&srvc=home
Yeah, the basic idea is to increase revenue, but I suspect the one-sentence pages are due to less-than-sophisticated programming than revenue considerations.
We do the same basic page-break thing at work">http://www.networkworld.com">work. And we used to run into similar problems as the Herald.
Turns out it's pretty tricky to design a good algorithm to account for things such as one sentence (as in, "if the last page would only have one sentence, just put it on the page before"). It can be done - we're proof - but it requires a skilled programmer (which we're lucky to have).
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