| Expectations and Needs for a Clip Art Site |
Required On Each Clip Art Page
Expectations and Suggestions
Plain backgrounds. Patterned, textured, or animated backgrounds detract from your clip art and graphics.
Highly visible text. Text should be very visible and easy to read. Please use a reasonable font size and also ensure that your viewed links, as well as the to be viewed links are visible on your Web page background.
No Animation. The only animated images you should have on your clip art pages are the animated graphics for your visitors.
Simple Web page titles, headers, and navigation graphics. Large ornate titles, graphic menus, JavaScript controls, interfaces, etc., will slow down the loading of the page. Keep your clip art page necessities simple and small to ensure the clip art pages loads in a reasonable time.
Links that work. Periodically, ensure that all your links work: navigation links from page to page, outside links to referred sites, email links, etc.
Unbroken images. When working with or uploading multiple images on clip art collection pages, it's very easy to have a few that won't load. If your clip art collection is something that I need or of great benefit to clip art visitors I will probably link your site. If broken images are excessive on your site, I will not link your clip art in my Indexes and categories.
No Music or Sound. If you must have music or sound on your clip art collection pages, please code the music or sound OFF. If your visitors want to hear sound or music they can then push the On button. When a visitor surfs your site, it can be very irritating to hear the beginning of the same music or the beginning of different music while browsing from page to page.
No Blinking Text. No blinking text on a clip art collection page, or, in my own opinion, on any page...ever! Blinking text might be considered an attention getter, but if I am on your site over one minute it is nothing but an irritating headache bringer. :-)
More Pages. Rather than having one long page of clip art, consider splitting the clip art into multiple pages. This will help the pages to load quicker.
Remember, the requirements, expectations, and suggestions are what I would love to see when I find, browse, and review clip art sites. If you have a clip art site with excellent clip art, backgrounds, etc., or clip art topics that I need or am working on, my suggestions, expectations, and wants will not keep you from being linked in the resource indexes and categories on the Web clip art site.
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