17 October 2007
Reading and Navigating in Hypertext
When browsing through Liu and Dang's documents, I understand what they are saying when readers focus only on the items which stand out the most - links, bold, italicized, or underlined words, different colors, fonts, alignment. Also, I understand how people often keep clicking links until they reach an end page with no links to continue, where readers click the "back" button and then continue looking for other links to browse through. Simply stated, readers will mainly focus their attention on links and will continue clicking on links to other pages until they cannot move forward anymore.
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This is very true. I know when I am reading through a hypertext essay, I usually click on the links instead of reading the rest of the page. Do you have any ways that you are going to change your website due to what Liu and Dang said?
Exactly, if there are so many links that the viewer can just keep clicking through to his/her heart's content than the site is like a video game. Limit the amount of links in text to really capture the reader.
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