Re: WAP <Fuzzy is confused>

Keith, Mike and Fuzzy ....

Come on you guys - -

On behalf of all the long suffering Illustrators, Photographers, (forensic -
glamour - advertising - etc.), Artists and hundreds more who slave over
images ...

May I emphatically suggest that images ARE content.

Granted, though I don't see all that well up close after all those eye
surgeries, to the vast majority of surfers, content is in the "eye" of the
beholder. If you are on the web to check out your local used car dealer, you
want to see the picture. After all, every car on his lot is a "Real Steal"
and "loaded with extras".

Or take a web site like Taurus. Their catalog may list a .22 cal. Model 94.
But the image instantly shows that it is a good looking stainless steel
revolver, holding nine rounds and comes with the latest in rubber compound
grips and non snag sights.

Even those pitiful few that read my novels often comment on the few graphics
contained in the pages. (One assumes they are grasping at straws for
something nice to say.)

The point is--people are different--with different needs and tastes. You
just can not assume that everybody wants to see nothing but text.

A picture is often worth that 1000 words and can tell a story in a glance.
Often it can set the mood or impression.

Take the Plain Jane who strolls through the Mall sporting long hair and a
dress. Plain or not, every male eye within a city block will turn and look.
Are they looking for editorial intellectual content. I think not. The long
hair and dress has set the mood. And for men at least, with those two visual
attributes showing, the intelligence is implied.

Best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/
www.newsredding.com/


> Fuzzy,
>
> Have to agree with you on this one (boy, that's twice in one week ).  The
> internet's humble beginnings were solely content oriented.  Even though
> graphics have helped it to grow as it has, the only thing that truly
drives the
> 'net is content, content, content.

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