The Web is the visual component of the Internet. Images may be the heart and soul of the Web. Web page images play a role far greater than mere decoration, and contribute not only to the semantics of the content, but provide "signage" to help readers move around among islands of content. Images change location, fade and come into view, respond to user actions, etc., etc. In short, being an effective web communicator means using images effectively.

Week six projects: Images   Google maps (sort of)

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Joel on software writes ...

Look at the scenario from the customer’s standpoint. You visit 100 websites a day. You then upgraded to IE 8. On half of them, the page is messed up, and Google Maps doesn’t work at all.

You’re going to tell your friends, “Don’t upgrade to IE 8. It messes up every page, and Google Maps doesn’t work at all.” Are you going to View Source to determine that website X is using nonstandard HTML, and Google Maps doesn’t work because it is using non-standard JavaScript objects from old versions of IE that were never accepted by the standards committee? Of course not. You’re going to uninstall IE 8. (Those websites are out of your control. Some of them were developed by people who are now dead. The only thing you can do is go back to IE 7).

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