No-Text Sites

[Blinky the Shark]

So, once "everybody"[1] has broadband, will text be considered archaic, in
favor of all-image sites?

http://www.neworleansyogacenter.com/directions.htm

[1]Which really means "everybody who's creating websites, actual users
be damned".

 

[Mark Parnell]

So, once "everybody"[1] has broadband, will text be considered archaic, in
favor of all-image sites?

http://www.neworleansyogacenter.com/directions.htm

Sadly, that's not the first site I've seen like that. I remember one (I
think it was posted here a couple of years ago) which was just one
massive image. I don't think there were even any links. *sigh*

 

[Joel Shepherd]

So, once "everybody"[1] has broadband, will text be considered archaic, in
favor of all-image sites?

Yes. In addition, books, magazines, newspapers, menus, movie credits,
contracts and financial statements will _all_ fall into universal
disuse, within the next five years I'd say. The information they contain
will either no longer be relevant to anyone, or readily replaced by cute
clip-art.

Urgh...

 

[Blinky the Shark]

So, once "everybody"[1] has broadband, will text be considered archaic, in
favor of all-image sites?

Yes. In addition, books, magazines, newspapers, menus, movie credits,
contracts and financial statements will _all_ fall into universal
disuse, within the next five years I'd say. The information they contain
will either no longer be relevant to anyone, or readily replaced by cute
clip-art.

Now there's an image (no pun intended): a clip-art NDA.

Urgh...

<AOL> me to </AOL>

 

[Andy Dingley]

It was somewhere outside Barstow when Blinky the Shark

So, once "everybody"[1] has broadband, will text be considered archaic, in
favor of all-image sites?

No, I think this is just an old hangover from M$ Publisher (the worst
HTML creator ever)

 

[Carolyn Marenger]

So, once "everybody"[1] has broadband, will text be considered archaic, in
favor of all-image sites?

I suppose that once everybody has broadband, and not the slower versions
of it, along with everyone being cured of their vision problems, and of
course everyone learning English, or some other language, then I might
consider it. Until then, nahhh.

Carolyn

 

[Oli Filth]

So, once "everybody"[1] has broadband, will text be considered archaic, in
favor of all-image sites?

http://www.neworleansyogacenter.com/directions.htm

Sadly, that's not the first site I've seen like that. I remember one (I
think it was posted here a couple of years ago) which was just one
massive image. I don't think there were even any links. *sigh*

Well, more fool the designer, when they find that their site isn't
getting indexed by search engines!

 

[JDS]

No, I think this is just an old hangover from M$ Publisher (the worst
HTML creator ever)

Look at the code. This site was almost certainly created with DreamWeaver.

 

[JDS]

So, once "everybody"[1] has broadband, will text be considered archaic, in
favor of all-image sites?

http://www.neworleansyogacenter.com/directions.htm

[1]Which really means "everybody who's creating websites, actual users
be damned".

My guess: This site was done by either

(1) a complete novice to the web

or

(2) a print designer who didn't understand the web

or some combination of the two. (Not mutually exclusive)

 

[Carolyn Marenger]

So, once "everybody"[1] has broadband, will text be considered archaic, in
favor of all-image sites?

http://www.neworleansyogacenter.com/directions.htm

Sadly, that's not the first site I've seen like that. I remember one (I
think it was posted here a couple of years ago) which was just one
massive image. I don't think there were even any links. *sigh*

Well, more fool the designer, when they find that their site isn't
getting indexed by search engines!

Shhh! Don't tell them that... less competition in the search engines for
the rest of us.

Carolyn

 

[kchayka]

My guess: This site was done by either

(1) a complete novice to the web

or

(2) a print designer who didn't understand the web

or some combination of the two. (Not mutually exclusive)

You can tell it's a slice-and-splice Fireworks/Dreamweaver construction
from the image names and JavaScript, so it's probably mostly #2.

I'm not sure a *complete* novice would be skilled enough with the tools
to do this, but I could be wrong.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

So, once "everybody"[1] has broadband, will text be considered
archaic, in favor of all-image sites?
http://www.neworleansyogacenter.com/directions.htm
[1]Which really means "everybody who's creating websites, actual
users be damned".

My guess: This site was done by either

(1) a complete novice to the web

(2) a print designer who didn't understand the web

or some combination of the two. (Not mutually exclusive)

It was drawn to my attention by a friend, who introduced it with:

"Here's a site with no text, only images positioned in tables plus some
javascript for the menu. Why the site designer made that decision is a
bit of a mystery, with the only clue being that she recently took a web
design class at a well-respected university. (I don't know her, just
know people who do know her and who had to figure out why the new design
led to the site falling completely off Google's radar.)"

At least the claim isn't that she "took a well-respected web design
class".