Re: question for the list (fwd)

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1 total messages Started by Gill, Kathy Tue, 04 May 1999 00:00

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Author: Gill, Kathy
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 00:00

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hi, georgiana:

i believe the medium is non-linear because we (designers/content creators)
do not have control over how the end user accesses our information (think
movies, radio - very linear ... books are usually constructed in linear
fashion, with exceptions of reference books ... videos, of course, are
created in linear format but the wonderful thing about them, imo, is we can
'back them up' when we didn't understand something someone said <g> ....
still, this is 'interactive linearity' - how's that for a new descriptor).

people have been known to build web sitest this way [ie, linear] - with only
2 links/page (forward-back) but in my experience, they don't work.

you can structure web sites so that they are more linear or less linear -- a
lot depends on your audience.

there is a little snippet of this in my slides for writing for the web,
http://www.cyberwriter.com/BCC/ppt_html/

advance apologies for the large GIFs  - this is a big presentation and I did
the "PPT to HTML" conversion, which does not optimize graphics.


Kathy


> From:         Georgiana VanSyckle[SMTP:gvansyck@WINSLO.STATE.OH.US]
>
> I have had a rather hot debate over whether the web is linear or nonlinear
> in its organization.
>
>

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