When to use pagination.
Web pages are not the same as those in a book. Browsers let you scroll. Pages in a book have to be turned (if you want to keep reading of course).
I’ve seen a number of blogs that use pagination for relatively short articles, which seems to me to be needless. A good example of pagination on a long article can be found on the SitePoint website.
The main use of pagination occurs on e-commerce websites. Even then, the restrictiveness of pagination is loosened by giving the user an option of how many, if not all, of the items can be viewed on a page at once.
So there you go, use sparingly on blogs, use for a large number of products for e-commerce, and since I didn’t mention other types of site, don’t use it on those at all.
