Our use of Netscape and enthusiasm for graphics shouldn't blind us to the fact that most W&L WWW users don't have Netscape yet --they're stuck with the text-only limitations of lynx (the Campus Information System on Liberty) and may well not appreciate having their noses rubbed in graphics they can't see. So designing Web documents shouldn't rest entirely on the visual possibilities.

There's an easy way to 'hide' the information that graphics are available, exemplified by the HTML code for the Colonnade image on W&L's Home Page, which says

<IMG align=left SRC="http://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/~hblackme/newhome/wash6.gif" ALT=" ">
The bit that says ALT=" " tells the nongraphic browser to ignore the image; without this the nongraphic browser would display [IMAGE] where the image is supposed to appear.