Brent Eades wrote:
>
> On 15 Mar 99, Michael A. Stone wrote:
>
> > i agree with Suzanne that this is Bauhaus like a fish is a trombonist, but
> > the name of the style is a non-issue. what's more important is that you
> > have just this side of zero support for non-graphical navigation. if you
> > want text-based browsing, you need text links, and this site looks like it
> > was designed specifically to avoid those wherever possible
>
> Agreed, it's not really relevant quibbling over architectural
> metaphors in this case, though it's a little ironic that anyone
> should apply the term "Bauhaus" to a style of design that emphasizes
> form at the expense of function; for this is the polar opposite of
> what Gropius and his disciples espoused at the Bauhaus school.
Sorry, didn't intend to imply that the site was supposed to *be* bauhaus
(a style I have little interest in and don't really like myself), but
that the people overseeing the graphic design leaned that way and tried
to exert influence. The initial drafts that came from them had
*nothing* but white space and text links. It was ludicrous. No offense
to art purists of various kinds, but that style and the need for
navigation don't go together well. The guys doing the design and I had
a drawn out process of finding middle ground with them.
My preference would have been more engaging and integrated navigation, a
richer picture-based story telling aspect, and a hell of a lot less text
and whitespace -- or, heaven forbid, a background other than FFFFFF.
The reference was simply to explain why the design leans toward
starkness, especially internally.
As far as text links, each graphic in the navigation should have alt
tags. There shouldn't be any barriers to getting past the home page
even with images off . . . that's the kind of thing we're looking for
at present. (But, no, in this instance there won't be redundant text
links for the individual graphic links)
B
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