Structuring Information
Audience characteristics and your own objectives for creating a site are the human factors that go into Web-site design. As you begin to focus on the site itself, you will discover that two other factors are vying for a visitor's attention: the information you're presenting and the "look and feel" of the site. Just as you had to strike a balance between audience characteristics and your objectives, you must do the same for these site-related factors.
Two approaches for structuring content have emerged during the Web's short history: the drill-down structure (also known as the layered structure) and the flat structure. Additionally, the advent of JavaScript gives you the option to present information in multiple browser ...
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