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Feature boxes are one of our most useful widgets, but did you know you can use empty boxes to create impactful layouts designed for the reading brain?
White space refers to the empty space between objects in your design. Despite its name, it doesn't have to be white. It just needs to be free of focal points like text or complex imagery.
White space breaks up heavy blocks of text and imagery into more easily digestible chunks. It reduces cognitive load and increases the visual appeal of a layout.
You could technically create white space in your Turtl content by pressing enter in the body of your text to create gaps, but this won't look great for your mobile readers. Turtl will view those manual gaps as intentional line breaks in the text, so mobile readers might be faced with entirely blank screens as they read.
Putting all copy in feature boxes and pinning it to create white space isn't ideal if you want a paragraph of copy to flow naturally across columns. By breaking a paragraph into two feature boxes, you'll be inserting an unnatural break in the mobile view.
You might also want to break a body of copy up with a quote in the mobile view, which having it in a feature box prevents.
Just insert your blank feature box into your immerse page, pin it, and drag it to where you want your white space to be.
Because you've created your white space with a feature box, you can hide it in the mobile view using the mobile tab in settings so that text flows seamlessly for your mobile readers. This means your desktop readers will get the full impact of your white space design without damaging mobile reading experience.
A lot of our users don't add alternative text to their images. Here's why it's something worth considering:
Alternative text exists to help screenreaders turn your content into audio. This helps your visually impaired readers know what's going on in the images you've included in your Turtl Doc.
Google's algorithm favors content that's accessible to everyone. If you have alt text on your images, Google will view it as more valuable and rank you higher in their searches. If you're targeting specific keywords in your content, make sure they also appear in your alt text.
To add Alt text to an image, head to the image settings and look under the Misc tab.
On surf images, look for three dots next to the image crop button. Click that and you'll be presented with the field to enter your alt text for that image. If you don't see these three dots, please speak to your account manager.