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Structure and Access: 2 Fundamental Web Design Principles
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Introduction

Principle 1:
Structure

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Building Structures for sense-making ..4

In the distributed structure of a lake paths (or connections or relationships) need not follow established lines of communication but can be linked by proximity and/or flavour and/or affinity and/or influence and/or difference.
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spacer The web interface and its three dimensional field is an ideal place in which to construct complex paths to knowledge building that more closely echo the human thought style. A web example of a kind of modelling on the lake is Ted Nelson's Birthday Card designed by Roy Stringer and Roger Hamden.[HREF3]  Still of card
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Principle 2:
Access

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Making it Easy

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