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- Web Design Tip - Don’t use graphics if text will work just as well.
Sometimes, you may be tempted to put some text in an image to display on the web page. However, in almost all cases, text is the best thing to use in your design. Here are a few reasons why:
- Text can be read by Search Engine spiders. Images – not so much.
- Text can be ready by humans. This is especially important in the event that your web page is passed through a language translator.
- Text will always show up but sometimes the paths to images get lost and they fail to display.
About the only time to create text as an image is if you absolutely must use an artsy or abstract text font and there is a high probability that most of your site visitors won’t have that particular font installed on their machines. In a case such as that, you will probably have to create that text as an image. Just remember to make use of the ALT attribute so that the image is correctly described to screen reading programs and Search Engine robots.
Common Web Design Mistakes »
The web is full of examples of poor design. There are even some popular, high traffic web sites that, in my opinion, have some design flaws that could be corrected. And I will certainly be the first to admit that I have made my share of mistakes. In fact, we have a few personal sites that will be fixed as soon as we get the time.
But I think that if we all were doing the same things we did 5 years ago, we would be failing to learn and when you are dealing with the ever-changing technology of the Internet, there is always something to learn and always ways to improve.
So, I am writing down some quick tips that are a result of things we have learned over the years. Some of these tips will be a result of mistakes that we have made and some of them are web design tips and tricks that we have piked up from the bounty of web design experts out there.
When you see this graphic, that is an indicator that you are reading a tip in the series. Feedback is always appreciated and if you have a tip of your own, feel free to mention that as well.
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