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MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 1998

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published April 1998
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Web Graphics: Art on the Net

Mark Harden, texas.net Museum of Art

Integrating Image and Text

A major challenge for any art web site is the effective integration of images with text. In this sense, browser frames offer an improvement over an art book, where you may find yourself constantly flipping pages between a reproduction and the related text. By using frames, the image will remain onscreen even as the text scrolls down. An example of this layout is the "Schapiro on Cézanne" section.

A more dynamic use of frames is illustrated by "Beckmann: Departure". This exhibition includes four frames: (1) basic site navigation, (2) text, (3) thumbnail image and (4) detail images. Clicking anywhere on the thumbnail image will bring up a detail of that area of the painting in the "detail" frame, while simultaneously moving the "text" frame to the section that discusses that particular detail. Conversely, while reading the essay in the "text" frame, clicking on links in the text will bring up the corresponding detail in the "detail" frame.

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