Posted by cassia on 12/06/06 22:03

Bergamot wrote:
> cassiadenton@gmail.com wrote:
> > by the way, I understand that I shouldn't design my page in photoshop,
> > but it seemed to work well enough for my first webpage
> >
> > http://cc.usu.edu/~cassia/indexpage.html
> >
> > I just used image maps
>
> That's not a web page. It's a graphic masquerading as one, and a slow
> loading one at that.
>
> Just try using that with image loading turned off. You can't. It is an
> accessibility disaster.
>
> You will never understand until you stop using a graphics editor to make
> web pages. Start off using just plain text. Use valid, semantic HTML to
> mark up headings, paragraphs, lists of links, and other page elements.
> Once you have the structure down, then you can start embellishing it
> with graphics, color and what-not, using CSS for styling.
>
> If that's not what your instructor is teaching you, then you should
> complain to the school and get your money back.
>

Fair enough :)


> --
> Berg

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