5. Including Images and Media

Image and media files convey much of the message of your Web site. You may even get most of your message across with video and animation, although most sites use images to supplement the text.

Some Web sites suffer from graphic overkill. There’s a balancing act between using graphics to enhance the message and using images to bludgeon visitors into submission. Think of sites that use images of green text on a red background, ...

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