Example of Bad Web Graphics.

Computing & Information Services Department.
jim.cerny@unh.edu

This bad example pulls together on one page a number of things that you should never do (well, hardly ever, to quote from HMS Pinafore), that individually and collectively detract from a Web page.

In order down the page these include:

• visually distracting and competing background pattern.
• blinking text.
• ineffective choice of text color.
• excessively small line of text.
• ineffective use of horizontal rule.
• content of graphics unrelated to page topic.
• large quantity of in-line graphics (magritte=16.4K, rotating face=11.7K, grinning face=15.8K, duck=16.9K).
• silly smiley faces.
• irrelevant animated GIFs, set to loop indefinitely.

Other problems with the page include lack of a contact address or indication of ownership and, lurking in the HTML source, a complex set of nested Tables to control layout (View Source). And it could be even worse, in that the content could be more offensive and it could require use of special plug-ins or ActiveX controls.