The World Wide Web was designed as a text-based communications medium for research purposes. The development of browser technology by computer scientists at the University of Illinois, some of whom went on to found Netscape Communications Corp., provided authors the ability to include images such as schematic diagrams in their pages. As hobbyists and commercial interests moved into web design, they happily applied this technique to create more visually pleasing documents. There are, however, some problems associated with web imagery.
Large images require a lot of bandwidth to download in a reasonable time.
Finally, authors sometimes get carried away with elaborate graphic designs and lose their informational focus. MMI understands both the power and the limitations of digital imagery on the internet. Careful attention to detail must be applied to these files. They should support and enhance, not overwhelm or distract from, the content of a page.