Tools

 

If a hypertext is made only by nodes, links and anchorages, the navigation across the information will be confused for the reader and he can lose the course of the reading, because he can have the impression of getting lost, and also can find that exits more information than he could manage to read; due to the fact that the reader is accustomed to the linear text and not to a non-linear text.

 

To alleviate the problem, it is necessary to organize the information in such a way that the reader could recover the most relevant or precise information by means of consultations. This labor is carried out establishing a system of search and recovery, and also putting into practice all the possible technical resources, as the use of documentary languages, which together with the design, an adapted interface of consultation and the appropriate tools, will facilitate that the information, in which we are interested, could be recovered in an effective and immediate form. Tools must facilitate the navigation and in addition, they should help the user not only not getting lost, but also provide a rapid, simple and efficient search.

 

Navegate through this hypertext is not only a task, but also a way to realize other tasks, as having access to more information about the Aztec society, consulting its content or knowing more about their authors. In order to be Sister Stories easily to read, the authors have made used of the following tools of orientation, access and search :

 

 

*        Inclusion of menus at the top and bottom of each screen

 

*        Backward devices

 

*        Lists of links that favor the location of the information 

 

*        Guided tours

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

INTRODUCTION      HYPERTEXT      STRUCTURE      TOOLS      CONCLUSION      SECOND PAPER

 

 

 

 

 

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Mar Andreu González
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