> one of my favorite tricks was to swing my monitor around and ask the
> candidates for webmaster to take me to their demo site. me being a
> geek-luddite, my standard browser settings are no Java, no Javascript,
> and no automatic image loading.
>
> since i'm also a rank bastard, i never bothered to mention that fact.
BRAVO!!!
> i saw countless pages which were completely blank except for a few
> ALT-free image icons; i saw more than one page where all the spiffy Java
> rollover links showed up as nothing but empty grey boxes. usually,
> there was no other way to get from page to page.
> i also saw a whole bunch of blank expressions, which told me that the
> person in question had never stopped to think about the page being
> viewed under any conditions but the ones on their machine at home.
Right!
I just won another battle today with a client who wanted "a bit" of
graphics on top. He said it looked great, etc. etc.
I told him to hit the refresh button and started counting... fifteen
seconds. He got the point! The graphic went back to the bottom of the
page. (Still have to get him to improve the Engolitch on the site...)
> they like so much. from what you've described, i'd imagine the
> experience of seeing the magic fail to work would have more impact
> than a list of facts and figures.
All that said, when the magic works, it is very nice indeed! But on
so many sites, the graphics make the text IMPOSSIBLE to read! Or it fails
on some browsers. And the ego of the site owner makes it very difficult
to get those point across.
Then too, there are the folks who don't have enough ego to want a
good site... When you look at it from that point, the guys with the ego
are not that bad, as they are often willing to part with some money to
look good. (Laughing!)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----------------------- IMAGINEERING --------------------------
----------------- Every mouse click, a Vote -------------------
---------- Do they vote For, or Against your pages? -----------
----- What people want: http://www.mall-net.com/se_report/ ----
---------------------------------------------------------------
____________________________________________________________________
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Join The NEW Web Consultants Association FORUMS and CHAT:
Register Today at: http://just4u.com/forums/
Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants
Give the Gift of Life This Year...
Just4U Stop Smoking Support forum - helping smokers for
over three years-tell a friend: http://just4u.com/forums/
To get 500 Banner Ads for FREE
go to http://www.linkbuddies.com/start.go?id=111261
---------------------------------------------------------------------
