Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Beginners Lighting Kit

Introduction to Linear vs. hypertext documents

first thing we consider when designing a document or set of Web pages is that it is a hypertext document and not of a linear document, like maybe a book.

When writing a book, the author arranges the chapters sequentially to match the exposure that he intends to perform. While reading the book can go directly to a chapter in particular, it has been written to be read out line.

On the other hand, when developing a Web document we must consider that it may happen that a user visits a page or set of pages in particular directly without reading the rest of the document.

In a hypertext document find links within the page that will allow us to go directly to any part of the document.

Here's a chart to see the structure of a document designed for the Web:


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