Website Design Forum - Scientific publishing with embedded images

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Scientific publishing with embedded images

Andy Dingley

2007-03-07, 10:20 pm

Any thoughts on this one?
http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/content/full/210/3/308

Not my site, I offer no apologies for the HTML coding itself.

What I'm interested in is the way in which small images are embedded
and navigable. How do you find this, from a user-centric usability
point of view? I'm looking to build a bunch of XSLT-based CMS work
to publish similar papers.

Printing could be better though.

Gary Peek

2007-03-07, 10:20 pm

Andy Dingley wrote:
> Any thoughts on this one?
> http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/content/full/210/3/308
> What I'm interested in is the way in which small images are embedded
> and navigable. How do you find this, from a user-centric usability
> point of view?

Classic HTML! This type of document is what HTML was designed for.
You can read the text straight through, or you can click on the links
if you want to pause and check the references and diagrams/pictures.

mbstevens

2007-03-07, 10:20 pm

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:10:05 -0800, Andy Dingley wrote:

> What I'm interested in is the way in which small images are embedded
> and navigable. How do you find this, from a user-centric usability
> point of view?

I like having a choice between opening in the same window or a JS popup.
They could have maybe been labeled better [1], and a little more space
between the two links so you don't press the wrong one. I like knowing
how large the image that I'm going to open is.

I'm not sure what you mean by "embedded and navigable" -- maybe I'm
missing the image I'm supposed to be looking at?

[1]

"this window

"popup window (requires JavaScript)"

Jim Moe

2007-03-07, 10:20 pm

Andy Dingley wrote:
> Any thoughts on this one?
> http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/content/full/210/3/308
>
> What I'm interested in is the way in which small images are embedded
> and navigable. How do you find this, from a user-centric usability
> point of view?
>
Look at the page with images disabled. The choice of alt values is sad.
Are you referring to the little index menus by each section?

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