[Web4lib] RE: Web technologies and public access

[Stevens, Julieanne H.]

I don't think anyone's mentioned this ?,  but our users generally rate
content by appearance.  They're simply not going to value the
information on a "plain" page without any bells and whistles, regardless
of the content. The page has to "look" like pages they're used to.

That said, I hate flash because you can't cut and paste it. We did a
recent survey of design companies and about half of them used flash.
Their pages looked real flashy, but I couldn't even cut and paste their
addresses into my report, which made more work than it was worth. 

Juju

Julieanne Hartman Stevens
Reference and  Electronic Resources Librarian
Stetson University College of Law
Law Library
1401 61st Street South
Gulfport, Florida 33707
727-562-7304
Internal extension: 7304
jhsteven at law.stetson.edu
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