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Chris Phillipo (webmaster@tread.pair.com) wrote:

: 		TREAD Publications
: 		IMAGE SCANNING & HTML AUTHORING
: 		http://www.tread.pair.com

When viewed through a text-based browser, or any browser with images
disabled, your homepage looks like this:

--- BEGIN INCLUDE

                                  [INLINE]                              
 
                                  [INLINE]
                    ___________________________________                  
                       
   Tread Publications offers image scanning and HTML authoring at       
   reasonable prices. More than just another business cranking out web
   pages that all look the same, your input and ideas are encouraged and 
   ...
--- END INCLUDE

Someone charging $565.00 for a company web site (20 pages), or $25 for
a personal site (one page!) should know how to apply the "ALT" attribute of
an <IMG> tag.

Additionally, your image map at the bottom looks like this:

                                  [ISMAP]

How are people supposed to navigate that?  A much better solution would
have been to implement your "map" as a table of the 3 images, with each
table cell linked to the target (descriptively named "indexa.html,"
"indexb.html," and "indexc.html").  This would appear *exactly the same* to
your GUI browser clients, but allow text-based users to see what is being
done much better.

Instead of

<CENTER><A HREF="tread.map"><IMG SRC="treadmap.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=78
WIDTH=419 ISMAP></A>

why not use

<CENTER>
  <TABLE>
    <TR>
      <TD>
        <A HREF="indexa.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/scanning.jpg"
                                   BORDER=0
                                   ALT="[Image Scanning]"></A></TD>
      <TD>
        <A HREF="indexb.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/authoring.jpg"
                                   BORDER=0
                                   ALT="[HTML Authoring]"></A></TD>
      <TD>
        <A HREF="indexc.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/pages.jpg"
                                   BORDER=0
                                   ALT="[TREAD Pages]"></A></TD>
    </TR>
  </TABLE>
</CENTER>

Now, instead of 

                                  [ISMAP]

your non-image and text-based visitors see

              [Image Scanning] [HTML Authoring] [TREAD Pages]

with each item as a link.  The bonus is that your GUI based visitors don't
notice a thing.  It looks exactly the same to them.

Someone charging $565.00 for a company page should know this.  I'm simply a
student, doing HTML in my spare time.

Kev.

--
Kevin Swan                                                         BCSH
kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca                               Acadia University
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