While I may not like some of the websites that get submitted to the various directories I manage I can appreciate that not everyone can design (I can’t!). However one of my pet hates are the image only sites. You know the ones I mean.
Instead of pages of text they are one big ugly image. No text. No links. Nothing clickable or spiderable.
You’d need to use OCR technology to get any content or meaning from them.
Why do people do that?
And what’s more worrying ….
Are they actually paying for it?
There are so many issues with image only sites that it’s hard to choose one to start with:
- Lack of text
- “Text” is not scalable
- Text cannot be spidered
- Screenreaders won’t see anything
- 56k dialup users will probably have to wait forever to see it (if they are patient enough to actually wait)
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