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

["Viron, Michael" <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Culp, David 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.
> 	[Culp, David]  I agree with that  , when I orinially began wrok on
> thelinuxgurus.org I had a graphic image with an imagemap as the main menu on
> the left side.  After awhile I changed it to text, now the only graphic that
> loads is the background which will not affect a text only browser, plus the
> page loads faster as that graphic menu was having to load each time the user
> went somewhere on the site.
Actually, if you utilize "ALT" tags on the images (as required by both
HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.x), you would be ok even in a text based browser.
That's what I was planning to do, so that I wouldn't have to worry about
those people with larger monitors seeing a "puny" menu along the side.
> 
> 	David Culp 
>