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Title: Website hierarchy and the interaction between content organization, webpage and navigation design : a systemic functional hypermedia discourse analysis perspective
Related: Information design journal, Vol. 15, Issue 2, p.144-162
DOI: 10.1075/idj.15.2.07djo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 2007
Author/Creator: Djonov, Emilia
Description: Website hierarchy is a central principle for organizing information in websites with implications for user orientation on the Web. Employing websites for children as case studies, this paper proposes a conceptualization of website hierarchy developed by adapting a tool from systemic functional linguistics to the analysis of websites. This new conceptualization draws on the strengths and reconciles the differences of existing ones in order to reflect the fluidity of websites as hypermedia texts on the WWW and the role that the interaction between content organization, webpage and navigation design plays in revealing a website's hierarchical organization and thereby orienting users within it.
Description: 19 page(s)
Subject Keyword: hypermedia discourse
Subject Keyword: information architecture
Subject Keyword: social semiotics
Subject Keyword: systemic functional theory
Subject Keyword: website hierarchy
Subject Keyword: website usability
Subject Keyword: children's websites
Subject Keyword: user orientation
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Institute of Early Childhood

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/24368
Identifier: ISSN:0142-5471
Identifier: mq-rm-2007003885
Language: eng
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