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Steps in Organizing Information
The
Yale
Style Manual suggests following the following steps to organize the content
of your pages:
1.
Chunking information
- Few
Web users spend time reading long passages of text on-screen.
- The
user of a link usually expects to find a specific unit of related
information, not a whole book's worth of information to filter through.
- Concise
chunks of information are better suited to the computer screen, which
provides a only limited view of long documents.
- Let
the nature of the content suggest the best ways to subdivide and organize
your information.
2.
Hierarchy
: Once you have determined a logical set of priorities, you can build a
hierarchy from the most important or most general concepts, down to the most
specific or optional topics.
3.
Relationships
: Consistent methods of grouping, ordering, labeling, and graphically
arranging information allow users to extend their knowledge from pages they have
visited to pages they are unfamiliar with.
4.
Function
:
Analyze your finished site for aesthetics, practicality, and
efficiency of your organizational scheme.
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The
Electronic
Educational Environment at the University of California remind you to include this link whenever it is necessary to have a
long page of text or graphics that will cause a user to scroll up and down
a page or if you are using anchor links within a page.
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