Problems with Websites (4)

• Web information is different ...

  • Conventional information provision is essentially linear and structured by the provider
    • Written/Printed
    • Spoken
  • Web information is non-linear and (despite careful design) is effectively ‘re-structured’ by every user
    • Multiple entry points
    • Multiple pathways

• It therefore demands a different approach

  • But how many web authors have studied hypertext “theory”
    ... and can apply it?
    

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