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Katherine Steiner Stocker <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:15:16 -0400
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One small suggestion to any future or present webmasters out there from
someone with computer equipment that's ancient and sloooooow:  go easy on
the fancy graphics and colors, especially anything on a black background.
It might look great on your monitor, but be completely illegible on mine.
Those of us with old systems also love text-only options.  Also, because I
tend not to download images if I can avoid it, I really hate it when I have
a list of options with pictures for buttons.  I have to click on the
button, download the picture, then click again to make my choice.  Along
the same line, I love websites that have captions available for the
pictures so I don't have to download them to get the gist of what's going on.

As time passes, this will be less of a problem, hopefully, but for now it
seems silly to put a lot of effort into fancy features that irritate some
of your visitors.  That's not to say you shouldn't do anything interesting,
just give us slowpokes a way to get around it.

Thanks for reading my two cents worth.
Katherine Steiner Stocker
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"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle."  --Rita
Mae Brown

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