The presentation of a radiographic teaching file on the World Wide Web
can be enhanced by attending to principles of web design. Chief among
these are appropriate control of page layout, minimization of the tim
e required to download a page from the remote server, and provision fo
r navigation within and among the web pages that constitute the site.
Page layout is easily accomplished by the use of tables; column widths
can be fixed to maintain an acceptable line length for text. Download
ing time is minimized by rigorous editing and by optimal compression o
f image files; beyond this, techniques like preloading of images and s
pecification of image width and height are also helpful, Navigation co
ntrols should be clear, consistent, and readily available. Copyright (
C) 1997 by W.B. Saunders Company.