Tham khảo tài liệu 'tự học html và css trong 1 giờ - part 7', công nghệ thông tin, đồ họa - thiết kế - flash phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 36 lesson 2 Preparing to Publish on the Web FIGURE Linear organization. Home Context generally is easy to figure out in a linear structure simply because there are so few places to go. A linear organization is rigid and limits your visitors freedom to explore and your freedom to present information. Linear structures are good for putting material online when the information also has a linear structure offline such as short stories step-by-step instructions or computer-based training or when you explicitly want to prevent your visitors from skipping around. For example consider teaching someone how to make cheese by using the Web. Cheese making is a complex process involving several steps that must be followed in a specific order. Describing this process using web pages lends itself to a linear structure rather well. When navigating a set of web pages on this subject you d start with the home page which might have a summary or an overview of the steps to follow. Then by using the link for going forward move on to the first step Choosing the Right Milk to the next step Setting and Curdling the Milk all the way through to the last step Curing and Ripening the Cheese. If you need to review at any time you could use the link for moving backward. Because the process is so linear you would have little need for links that branch off from the main stem or links that join together different steps in the process. NOTE__ The linear navigation style is most commonly seen with long articles on newspaper and magazine websites. The articles are often split into multiple pages and navigation is provided to make it easy to move through the pages of the article sequentially. Linear with Alternatives You can soften the rigidity of a linear structure by enabling the visitors to deviate from the main path. You could for example have a linear structure with alternatives that branch out from a single point see Figure . The offshoots can then rejoin the main branch at some point
