Do you use text rather than images where appropriate?

Using text rather than images has multiple advantages:

• Downloads faster - a users patience extends to about 7 seconds.
• Cheaper to update - a simple find and replace.
• Discoverable by search engines - if people can't get to your site, what's the point of it being there?
• Readable on an iPhone - Images will either be resized or require scrolling, which would create difficulties for readability.

<img src="Images/Heading_Welcome.gif>

❌ Figure: Bad Example - Using image for text header

<h1>Welcome to My Page</h1>

✅ Figure: Good Example - This text can be easily rendered by the browser and recognized by search engine