Elements of Hypermedia Design: Techniques for Navigation & Visualization in Cyberspace

by Peter A. Gloor

The hypermedia authoring process has been vividly described in a special issue of the Economist as a combination of writing a book, a play, a film, and a radio or television show: A hypermedia document combines all these elements and adds some of its own. The author' s first job is to structure and explain all of the infor- mation. The author then must distill the information into brief, descriptive nodes. Each node has to contain a Iist of the ingredients,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081763911X
• ISBN13: 9780817639112
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

hidden gems for web site design

I recently got hold of a copy of this book, and I was suprised about its actuality. It came out 6 years ago, but the main lessons are as valid today as they were when the book came out.Its content is quite original. For example, I have not seen the seven design concepts for navigation in cyberspace elsewhere:linking, searching, sequentialization, hierarchy, similarity, mapping, agents. I found those useful as guiding principles for the design of my own Web sites.I also liked the chapter about algorithm animation, which has been around as a concept for quite some time, but has never really picked up.The writing is somewhat academic in style, but well worth digging in.