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    The Power of Hypermedia Links

    The Web, based on HTML has significant advantages over previous Internet viewing systems such as Gopher and Veronica. These systems are generally withering away or becoming encompassed within Web viewers as the Juggernaut of the WWW marches on:

      "the ability to imbed hypertext links text and graphics that can take full advantage of the Internet offers unprecedented functional power and flexibility in designing interlinked, interactive information systems. Thus page design in HTML should emphasize the power of hypermedia links to take full advantage of this medium. HTML and WWW viewers are a particularly welcome advance over Gopher viewers, which are easy to use but not ideally designed for navigating complex, many-tiered information systems. With HTML you can link directly to the relevant page anywhere on the Internet, without forcing your user through an endless series of menu within menus (or folders within folders, as in Gopher)."

    An advantage of Web Pages over previous publishing systems is the fact that the modular page approach means that individual pages can be updated without destroying the whole structure of the online collections of WWW pages. Page size should be determined by this modular structure but also bear in mind screen size and the editorial demands of your content. A single Web page should aim for 2 to 3 pages of printed page equivalents. It is also useful in a long document to have a separate single text file containing all the content of the document