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Posted by dorayme on 08/20/06 21:38
In article <ov6mr3-5oj.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>,
Toby Inkster <usenet200608@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
> > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/within_page_links.html
>
> FWIW, in my experience the practice of adding links to anchors further
> down a page is not so bad in itself -- however it is often an indication
> of something else wrong with the page.
>
> If a page has a "contents" or "summary" section near the top with links
> further down the page, it may be that the page is too long and the
> information needs splitting up into smaller pages. (That said, if your
> authoring tool allows it without too much effort, it may be a good idea to
> *also* offer the article as one long page for people to download and save,
> or to print from.)
>
> If a page has lots of links going up and down between different sections,
> then it may be that the information has been badly organised. Related
> sections should be physically close to each other.
One page I made with internal links had a list of contents of
abstracts of various papers that were to be read to a conference.
These were short paras summarizing the papers. There were a lot
of them and it would have been messy to have them anywhere except
on one long page. The contents directory (with even briefer info
such as subject and author) at top served a couple of functions,
one of which was to allow folk to go directly to anything that
might have interested them rather than scrolling and browsing and
the other (one of the few cases I needed different visited link
colours) to act as a guide to what they might have checked out.
--
dorayme
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