Posted by robert maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t on 02/18/07 05:47

> From: Joel Shepherd <joels...@ix.netcom.com>
> Huh? What on earth prevents one from writing and publishing a plain ol'
> HTML document, with text content and simple, non-graphical markup, to
> the Web, with a plain ol' dial-up connection? Sure, you're not going to
> build another Amazon that way, and no one is going to give your site a
> reward for prettiness, but so what. You can still publish useful content
> in an accessible way.

Thank you for sticking up for me against the people who seem to
believe that without a flashy presentation the content must be
worthless.

> Depending on the content, such a page could be far more useful
> and information-rich than most of the ad-, flash-, ajax- and
> image-laden crap swirling around out there.

Indeed, whenever I go online with a full graphic Web browser and
try to do anything with any of the commercial sites such as Yahoo,
I'm constantly blasted by vibrating rotating swirling crap that
constantly distracts me from trying to keep focused on what I'm
actually trying to read. Even the animated GIFs at NASA are
annoying. (Actually even the animated company logo in the Web
browser itself is annoying!!)

By the way, the one time I tried my hand at graphical content, when
I was taking that "Web Design" class 2.5 years ago, IMO I have no
artistic talent whatsoever and what I created looks like crap,
despite the fact that I learned some of the technical means for CSS
and embedded images etc. And of course I wasn't inspired for any
content either, so to satisfy class assignments I just cobbled
together whatever I could find that was easy to find that would
satisfy the assignments. So IMO what got me "A"s for grades in the
class is total crap actually. I hope you agree:
<http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/CIS89a/>
(And of course the instructor never told us about the validator, so
none of those class Web pages validate either.)
But at least I know some of the methodology, and have some samples
of non-complicated stuff I did myself and understand how I did it,
so if I ever have regular access to a fullfledged graphics Web
browser in a development environment, I can go back to those class
Web pages as examples to remind me how to do that stuff again.

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