January 24, 2008
Germanic Languages and Literatures: LSA Development, Marketing, and Communications strikes again
LSA Development, Marketing, and Communications strikes again with a redesign of the Germanic Languages and Literatures departmental website.
Witness this inspired use of the alt attribute:
and this one:
Of course, the big, important images have alt blank alt attributes.
Important hint: use a blank alt attribute (alt="") for structural images, and a descriptive alt attribute if the image describes anything.
I would write more, but unfortunately, none of the top-level links work at the time of publication.
Manged to figure out one of them: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/german, which uses a non-degrading Javascript hide-show trick. Dubious implementation; the link to expand the information looks just the same as the title, which does not function as a link that expands the content.
Text is light tan on white, set close and small in Arial:
Posted by hampelm at January 24, 2008 12:00 AM