Re: [seul-edu] Re: Web Site Prototype

[Chris Ellec <info@linuxforkids.com>]

Doug Loss wrote:

> Michael Viron wrote:
> >
> > That's fine--it is very easy to fix that--I was planning on replacing the
> > text menu along the side with graphics anyways.
>
> I _strongly_ advise against doing anything that's graphics only.  The
> whole point of HTML and the World Wide Web is to present information in
> a pleasing way that degrades gracefully depending on the capabilities of
> the user's browser.  Gratuitous use of graphics for elements that are
> just as easily represented textually is the bane of many people using
> text-only browsers.  These include the blind, people with less-powerful
> systems (often in less developed countries), and web indexing programs.
> Even if they don't constitute a large percentage of our reading
> constituency, I feel we must be accessible to them.
>

And people with slow connection, or who pay their internet by the minute (in
Europe for example).

My threshold is about 10-15 seconds. If a web site doesn't start showing me
something (anything !) after 15 seconds, they loose my business.

Chris.