I'm impressed at how you've used HTML alone to achieve
"graphic effects".
I sometimes feel that the style of the WDVL is a little "baroque" compared
to the rest of the web and that we could do with a little lightening up, but at least
most pages are very fast to load and I don't have an image map to redo whenever I
want to update the home page. There is, however, a price to pay in that you can't be
absolutely sure how a page will appear to everyone, since there are variations (e.g.
in how colors and layouts might be rendered). We occasionally get complaints or
suggestions about such things as illegible color combinations which appear perfectly
legible to me, but if it seems reasonable we try to accomodate such comments.
If you are using a browser that doesn't support style sheets, you may be missing out.
The newest versions of Netscape (version 4) and Internet Explorer (version 4) will allow you to experience
further interesting effects - most notably in the navigation menus. The use of style
sheets should go a long way towards relieving web developers of the limitations of
HTML for presentation purposes, for which it was never intended.
