Subj : Freebies
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Sat May 07 2005 05:10 pm

CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT>> and explains why those who continue to try and push are doomed to 
RJT>> fail. 

CA>> Those who push are not only NOT failing they are becoming 
CA>> billionaires in the process. 

RJT> Read the book, and you'll better understand where I'm coming from 
RJT> with this. 

CA> I will read the book if you will spend the next year or so
CA> discussing this with professional webmasters. ;-) 

I have,  from time to time,  been dropping notes to webmasters with my opinions 
and comments on their sites.  Sometimes I even get a reply.  Sometimes 
"webmaster@whatever.com" isn't a valid address,  since they seem to have become 
a target for spam.  I've been at this for somewhat longer than a year.

It's not them that make the final decision,  though,  but those who direct 
them.

Case in point:  For some folks,  a suggestion (which a browser tag is more 
often than not) isn't good enough.  They can say what font they want to use, 
and what size,  and so forth.  But suppose you don't have that font on your 
machine?  The solution (and there are times when I *hate* that word!) on a lot 
of sites is to load a graphic to substitute.  This is _OFTEN_ done for menu 
items,  typically going down the left side of the page.

Now,  my eyes aren't quite what they used to be.  I really like the feature of 
firefox where you can hit a single keystroke and make the type get bigger. But 
when the menus and such are all graphics rather than words,  this doesn't work. 
 Which makes it hard for me to view those sites.

Thier loss,  I'll get what I want somewhere else...

Once a lot of those people realize that I have that choice,  maybe they'll wake 
up. 

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