[thelist] Image question

[spinhead]

agreed on all points. if this is the only navigation, it's anti-usability,
and if alternate navigation is hard to use, what happens to text browsers or
readers?

i was just wondering if there was more to it than i'd already thunk of.
thanks.

spinhead


----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Erickson" <amanda at gawow.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Image question


> Kicking puppies is evil.
>
> I think separate text links are coolio. In my experience, alt tags on
image
> maps don't work very well cross-browser and there's always the possibility
> that images won't load. If the image map containing the navigation doesn't
> load then the user is screwed.
>
> I have just never been a fan of image maps and especially not for
> navigation.
>
> - amanda
>
> > so, educate me - if separate text links are available for
> > degradation/usability, is this evil? it's not my first choice, but
really;
> > is it evil?
> >
> > spinhead
>
> > > Use the "effects" menu on Photoshop for bevels and whatnot.
> > You'll do one
> > > effect for the entire thing to get the "raised" look. Then on another
> > layer
> > > you'll do a line for the inner border and do an effect to make the
> > indented
> > > look.
> > >
> > > - amanda
> > >
> > > P.S. You're not making that into an image map are you? [sounds
> > of choking]
>