Nothing on this website is without purpose. Functionality and load time were main objectives we pursued in the development of this website. Instead of creating 4 different versions of the website to accommodate visitors with Internet speeds ranging from 28.8 to the 1000s kbps, we decided to keep it simple. Some people may think that just because the bandwidth is there it must be used. Not the case we believed. We believe E-Bionet/ChemWorld provides tremendous educational resources and learning tools without alienating any major browser version in use today.
As you can see there is no text-only version of the website. The reasons are twofold:
- For every image acting as navigation above there are corresponding text links that act as secondary navigational tools for those with graphics enabled and primary navigational tools for those with graphics disabled.
- You can't teach the masses without diagrams! Not everyone can read a text description of molecular structures and interactions and Snap! comprehend it like that. In fact, most teachers could probably only name a handful of students like that in their lifetime. Instead we had to be prepared to teach everyone: both visual and auditory (textual) learners. Mr. Straight-A's will probably use us only for review, but most of his friends will probably enjoy the comprehensive approach: In biology we have topics that range from metabolism and genetics to organisms and ecology; in chemistry, we cover much of everything from nomenclature to nuclear chemistry.
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