Summary

Giving your Web site visitors the ability to customize display settings, as well as providing a more visually appealing experience can only make the time spent on your site more enjoyable. Through a bit of JavaScript and DHTML effects, you can achieve both of these aims relatively easily. Moreover, by utilizing cookies, you can integrate many of these effects across your entire site, so that if, for example, a custom color scheme is set on one page, it can be applied across the entire site. While form should follow function even in a dynamic, graphically rich medium such as the Web, this doesn't mean your site has to be plain or otherwise "boring". Indeed, as this chapter has shown, by utilizing some simple, tasteful graphics in addition to some basic HTML (e.g. frames), you can achieve an attractive site that looks good, but at the same time delivers all the required information and in an accessible, well-organized format.