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Structure and Access: 2 Fundamental Web Design Principles
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Introduction

Principle 1:
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Additionally the link names need to warm the web visitor up to what is at the other end of the link. In a building, for instance, a door indicates a different kind of exit to a window. Outside doors are different to internal doors. Diagram
spacer Amaze Ltd (UK) [HREF3] are working to devise new ways of site navigation. They talk about discovery engines not search engines and transparent user interfaces. They are working on the "creation of intuitive navigation systems" for a range of products, from interactive TV handsets to CD-ROMs of the human immune system".
spacerTheir navihedron is being used in the construction of the Western Australian transport website. [HREF4]
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Principle 2:
Access

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Making it Easy

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