They say a picture tells a thousand words. And we all know that the search engines love text and largely ignore the graphics. But what about us humans?
Here’s a really neat web site which will ‘vacuum’ all the words off a web site to leave just the graphics – www.netdisaster.com Just enter a URL and then select the ‘Text Sucker’ option – no permanent damage is done, but it really demonstrate how much we rely upon the text on even the most graphic rich site. The site will also throw all manner of other very graphical plagues over your site as well.
So good web design balances the power of graphics and words to attract and persuade the visitor to explore the site and take the action we desire.
