Hi guys.  Have a general question here.  Do you think have hidden text on a page which is revealed by clicking on a (read more) link is a good idea.

You can see where I have used this concept http://www.demo.chouselive.co.za/activities/activities.html

Basically I want readers to easy see what is available but have easy access to additional information if they want to find out more.

Can you see any disadvantages to this?

Any thought is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Cara

Hi Scott.
Well with this little js snippet the read more links disappear and the whole page is visible.

Hi Scott.
Well with this little js snippet the read more links disappear and the whole page is visible.

Ah that was gonna be my next point lol.

Even if it makes it a long page, it's not really a problem. I'd suggest coding in some anchor links, so that if the text is shown, people can still navigate easily

For what you want to use it for I think it is a good idea, as you already have your subsections on the page, so having sub sub sections so that there wasn't as much text might annoy some people. As it works without JS then there isn't really that much of a problem, other than if it is disabled there being a lot of text...maybe you could have anchor points on the page, and have it so that JS hides the links at the top of the page, this way when JS isn't being used and someone just wants info on an activity that is halfway down or at the bottom of the page they can still easily jump to it

What the heck thats where I live?  How did you land that gig?

I like the site, the read more defo seems to work, it keeps the site looking nice and clean and easy to digest.

I prefer it, gives the reader the choice to carry on or skip to another section, less scrolling is mroe productive.