Developing without Graphics

You don't need thousands of graphics on a page to make it look great. I'm going to share some tips with you now on who to great, cool looking sites using minimal graphics, so your page will load faster and still look professional.

Graphics are sometimes used to cover large surface areas. They create large colourful areas on your page - something that can be done with BOTH tables and layers. Take a look at the box bellow:

Boxes like this do look good with a rounded top using graphics but do you really need it. Leave out the graphics and it still looks pretty good. You can also get a similar effect with layers. Another big area of graghics is rollover images for menus. But you can get the same effect once again with CSS< Java script and a table. Take a look at this example:

Here there should be the source code but we don't have space in the magazine. The full article online.

See - it really is easy to create good looking parts without graphics. Use can also try using colored horizontal lines (<hr color="blue">) and anything else that you think adds color. If you find something, send it to the LAB.
This article is available online in the Worfolk Developers Library > Development > GUI Lab