#10293
Problems and Solutions Converting Linear Documents to a Non-Linear Web Environment
The World-Wide Web empowers writers, educators, and businesses with a new medium to display content, communicate to their audiences, advertise, or simply organize information for a new type of presentation. Because the last ten years mark the growth and emergence of web technology and proliferation, web design standards are slowly emerging, and have not yet solidified. The medium is immature, can be misused, and frequently communicates ineffectively. Many writers and designers of web pages are faced with the challenge of converting information traditionally printed linearly to a non-linear presentation on the Web. This changes information organization, encourages the hypertext theory, engages readers, and takes advantage of the dynamic flexibility of the Web.
McKinstry, Barbara. Elements of Information Design (2001). Design>Information Design>Hypertext
#13964
Reflections on NoteCards: Seven Issues for the Next Generation of Hypermedia Systems 
NoteCards, developed by a team at Xerox PARC, was designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections. This article presents NoteCards as a foil against which to explore some of the major limitations of the current generation of hypermedia systems, and characterizes the issues that must be addressed in designing the next generation systems.
Halasz, Frank G. ACM SIGDOC (1988). Presentations>Information Design>Hypertext
#23268
Research About Hypertext Navigation and Web Structure-Handling Capabilities
The Web did what no other hypertext system did (with the possible notable exception of HyperCard): it brought hypertext to the large public.
Hoffman, Michael. Hypertext Navigation. Articles>Information Design>Hypertext
#14971
State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues And Applications
Hypertext systems are emerging as a new class of complex information management systems. These systems allow people to create, annotate, link together, and share information from a variety of media such as text, graphics, audio, video, animation, and programs. Hypertext systems provide a non-sequential and entirely new method of accessing information unlike traditional information systems which are primarily sequential in nature. They provide flexible access to information by incorporating the notions of navigation, annotation, and tailored presentation [Bieber, 1993]. There are a number of research issues related to the design, development, and application of hypertext systems. This paper is a review of literature related to all these issues. This chapter is an introduction to hypertext, some existing systems, and some pioneers who have contributed to the definition and understanding of many aspects related to hypertext. Chapter 2 discusses issues related to hypertext implementation. Chapter 3 is on database requirements for hypertext systems. Chapter 4 discusses user interface issues and evaluation of hypertext. Chapter 5 is on information retrieval in hypertext systems. Chapter 6 discusses research efforts in the area of integrating hypertext with the work environment. Chapter 7 discusses some of the applications for which the hypertext paradigm is most suitable. Chapter 8 discusses a systematic approach to user interface design for a hyprtext system. It is an attempt to apply some of the ideas discussed in earlier chapters. Chapter 9 is a summary of all research issues and sets some directions for further work.
Balasubramanian, V. E-Papyrus.com (1994). Books>Information Design>Hypertext
#20457
This Web site is a collaborative effort by students in Studies In Hypertext — a Technical Writing class offered by the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. The following pages discuss the political, theoretical, and technical issues of the World Wide Web and how these issues relate to the practices of communication, learning, and information retrieval in our culture.
University of Central Florida. Resources>Information Design>Hypertext
#24224
Studies in Hypertext: the Conversion of Traditional Texts into Web Sites 
The production of a web page has become a common assignment in a number of university classrooms, but there has yet to be established a pedagogy for the generation of large group-generated web sites that replicate the methods found in industry. In Studies in Hypertext, a course offered to technical communication students at the University of Central Florida, such a pedagogy is being shaped. In this course, students with little or no experience in web site generation work their way through a series of written and small web site construction tasks to eventually produce one complex and competently-integrated web site.
Applen, J.D. STC Proceedings (1999). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>Hypertext
#20829
Two Basic Hypertext Presentation Models
The hypertext world has classically distinguished between two fundamentally different ways of presenting hypertext nodes on the screen: scrolling and cards. Throughout the history of hypertext, designers of hypertext systems have argued about the relative merits of these two contrasting approaches. The proponents of the scrolling model are sometimes called the holy scrollers and the proponents of the card model are called the card sharks. Here are examples of documents I have authored myself in these two models, using pre-WWW hypertext systems.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (1995). Articles>Information Design>Hypertext
#20483
When you place content, Adobe® InDesign® 2.0 doesn't just add the graphics and text to your document—it keeps track of the original files as well. You can use the links to update the data if the original file changes, to track down missing graphic information, or to replace a graphic with another, without losing the transformations you've applied. And when you work with text files, it's usually best to remove the link altogether.
Adobe. Articles>Information Design>Document Design>Hypertext
#23926
L'ennemi de l'hypertexte, c'est l'hypertexte lui-même... Abusez de l'hypertexte et vous ne tarderez pas à dérouter votre visiteur. Evitez donc l'effet 'labyrinthe' dans la mesure du possible ! Un utilisateur ne devrait jamais avoir à explorer des forêts de boutons pour obtenir de simples informations.
Hardy, Jean-Marc. Redaction (2004). Articles>Information Design>Hypertext
#10419
Visual-Spatial Thinking in Hypertexts 
This article explores what it means to think visually and spatially in hypertexts. As visual-spatial texts, hypertexts urge users to think differently than they do with paper-based (verbal-linear) texts, perceiving the hypertext in three-dimensions and imagining the possible 'future paths' that might be followed in the text. Drawing from research on visual-spatial thinking from cognitive science, we explore how users react and maneuver in real and virtual three-dimensional spaces. Then we offer four principles of visual thinking that can be applied to the development of hypertexts. Illustrative uses of these principles are provided.
Johnson-Sheehan, Richard D. and Craig Baehr. Technical Communication Online (2001). Design>Information Design>Visual>Hypertext
#26206
What's Happening: Theory and Research
What will the 'document of the future' look like? What will be the new balance between text and other channels of communication?
Farkas, David K. STC Orange County (1998). Presentations>Information Design>Hypertext
#18996
Електронната vs. Книга-Печат и Хипертекст
Първата вълна на масирани ХТ изследвания се появи през 1992. Джордж Ландоу написа Конвергенцията на технологията и съвременната критическа теория; Дейвид Болтър - Писменото пространство; Майрън Тъман - Оnline грамотността. Опиращи се на различни предходни теоретични източници в спектъра от Дерида до инженери като Теодор Нелсън, и тримата поддържат гледището, че ХТ се заражда като идея в ранни литературнотеоретични работи.
Ivanov, Zhivko. FortuneCity (1999). (Bulgarian) Articles>Information Design>Hypertext
#33206
Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and Why 
The link is the basic element of hypertext, and researchers have long recognized that links provide semantic relationships for users. Yet little work has been done to understand the nature of these relationships, particularly in conjunction with the purposes of organizational/informational Web sites. This paper explores the semantic and rhetorical principles underlying link development and proposes a systematic, comprehensive classification of link types that would be of use to researchers and Web production teams.
Harrison, Claire. First Monday (2002). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>Hypertext
#33852
How Many Links Are Too Many Links?
To understand how much content effluvia we're subjected to, I wanted to see how many links are on the homepage of popular websites. For example, if I go to the homepage of the Huffington Post, I see 720 links, in one shot. Then click inside to a story and you've nearly doubled that number—it ads up pretty quickly. What about the tech blogs? BoingBoing Gadgets, 514. Gizmodo, 468. Engadget 432, all on one page. And on average, fewer than 1% of the links on news sites and blogs actually point to rich content, 99% are navigation and other article headlines. Aggregation site Techmeme has a whopping 1081 links.
Bilton, Nick. O'Reilly and Associates (2009). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>Hypertext
