E.g. they claim that users prefer short pages. The neat trick is to provide sufficient tools for them so that WWWing does not need a lot of additional time. Members of your department do know that. However, get modern HTML power tools for WWW-only publications. I just LOVE backgrounds and image maps.
Backgrounded pages look nice, but are often very hard to read.
In addition, Bitmaps are slow and did contribute to the actual desparate state of the Internet. Instead use HTML3 tables for some layouts. Most graphical browsers now can do tables. In addition some of our students use maps. They surely want pretty things, we are a bit too old for that.