[USPS-Webmasters] Website Awards - Animated Graphics
NewportPS2@aol.com
NewportPS2@aol.com
Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:15:06 EST
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I have been just watching so far, but I felt I had to jump in on this one.
As a sometimes evaluator, I have never been quite sure how to grade
animation, and to a lesser extent, backgrounds. Both can have a positive, neutral or
negative effect on the quality of a webpage. Creative non-overwhelming
backgrounds can enhance a website while the wrong choice of colors or color
intensity can make the text difficult to read. In this case it is worse than no
background at all. Likewise, animation can be positive, neutral or negative.
Boats or airplanes towing banners around or fish swimming around can be very
distracting and draw attention away from things that are more important. On
the other hand, I would consider an animated knot demonstration board, or a
"docking in the wind" demonstration or a light characteristics" display on a
separate page to be a website enhancement.
I hope the Web Evaluation Guidelines committee can devise scoring system
that will reward creative use of animation and backgrounds and penalize
inappropriate use of them without penalizing websites that don't have animation
and/or backgrounds.
Thurston
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