[WEB4LIB] Re: resolution

[David Merchant]

>I stand by the points I made in
><URL:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9810/0101.html>.  In

Good points.  And I forgot about PalmPilots and WinCE, they will becoming
more and more popular as time goes on as well. 

I don't mean to insult anyone, HTML coding is getting more and more time
consuming and difficult, what with CSS, DHTML, HTML 4.0, JavaScript, Java,
VBscript, ActiveX, PERL, SSI, graphic creations, sound implentation
issues/difficulties, various different browsers and platforms, keeping
visually disabled web surfers in mind -- color blindness, font size within
graphics (since a user resizing their screen fonts won't resize fonts
within images), designing so that text readers can read your page and make
sense of it  (designing a page to degrade gracefully for Lynx or having a
Lynx friendly version will usually take care of that), integration with
online databases, having the layout of the site flow logically or easily
for users to follow/navigate, taking into consideration differences in
connectivity (modems vs T-1 lines, etc) and thus keeping page/image sizes
down, and so on and so forth, while meeting users expectations, and/or your
bosses',  for some interactivity/multimedia aspect to your page,  so the
pressure to design a page for one platform, one screen size, one browser
can be very huge.  Especially when your bosses don't seem to grasp this and
think you should be able to whip out a professional page target to the
general public as quickly as you can whip out a report in Word or Word
Perfect.

TTFN,
David (who has his own battles trying to get a good web page designed and
up)
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