Una visita guiada es el camino lineal del espacio de información que puede utilizarse, por ejemplo, para ayudar a los usuarios

A guided tour is the linear way of the space of information that can be used, for example, to help the users to familiarize themselves with the contents of the hypertext. A hypertext can offer several guided tours, and between them, the user can choose one. It is necessary to foresee, with exit mechanisms, that the user can leave the visit when he wants, or if he wants, he can continue navigating upon the rest of the hypertext. It is also interesting that the user could recapture the visit just in the point where he has interrupted it. For this reason, is very useful to establish this mechanism in the whole web site, or to create different itineraries in order to give the user the possibility of choosing the route in which he is interested, without getting lost in the hypertext, that can suppose a very complex structure, which is the case of Sister Stories. The authors have created two guided tours, from which, by means of the links, you will be able to know more about the Aztec society.

Now you will see two examples:

Sister Stories is not an introduction to Aztec society. It deliberately invites you to read Nahuatl texts in English translation to arrive at your own sense of what these materials imply, evoke, hint at. Disorientation is the best kind of response one can have to the prospect of trying to make sense of a culture, now 500 years in the past,that grew from roots utterly distinct from Europe, Asia, and Africa.

But I don't want you to be discouraged. I have provided notes-- my own views, sometimes those of others-- on Aztec society in general, and on topics you may find difficult in particular. I hope you will defer reading these for now, but if you think some initial commentary will help, click on the links below for a start.

- Rosemary Joyce

People - Places - Things - History - Reality - Calendar - Colors - Florentine Codex

Every time you press people, places, things, history, reality, calendar, colours or Florentine codex, you will go to a page where you will find more links which will transport you to more concrete aspects inside the global aspect you have previously chosen. I have analysed their internal structure, connected by links, as you can see linking on the words. Calendar, colors and Florentine codex have all of them the same links, which are included in Things section.

The second visit guide, allows you to know in a global form all the aspects of the work (click here to see the page).

· Acknowledgements

· Authors' Bios

· Aztec Illustration Index

· Aztecs

· Literary Background

· Nahuatl Pronunciation

· Related Links

· Songs

· Sources

INTRODUCTION HYPERTEXT STRUCTURE TOOLS CONCLUSION

Universitat de València Press