[WEB4LIB] curious web design

[Kathy Wheeler]

I also find it a bit strange -- I probably would have linked both the text
and the picture. Other people's comments that it is anti-intuitive to link
only the ball since your mouse might not go across it are right on target.



At 11:55 AM 2/15/00 -0800, you wrote:
>I was accessing ALA's resource page on Internet filters and noticed that
they have
>a curious way of linking to the documents.  Instead of linking through the
text,
>the link is through the "ball" graphic to the left of the document name which
>serves as a bullet.  Am I the only one who finds this a bit odd?  I don't
think
>I've ever seen a link done this way.
>
>See:
>
>http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/filtersandfiltering.html
>
>Andrew Mutch
>Library Systems Technician
>Waterford Township Public Library
>Waterford, MI
>
>
>
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