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How will visitors arrive at, move through, and approach your material?
How will visitors arrive at, move through, and approach your material?
You’re moving from a beginning-to-end sequential text to a non-sequential hypertextual one. What chunks or sections will you need to break your paper into so that it’s not just a single long-scrolling page of text?
This is called “information architecture.” The Web Style Guide provides some guidance for thinking through how you’ll architect your site.
Since you’re not creating a “long tail” site that must rely on search as a navigational strategy, consider other options. Will your site be:
- A sequence with digressions?
- A simple web-and-spoke hierarchy?
- A more complex, multilayered hierarchy?
- A web of associated pages?
Figure 3.9 on the “Information Architecture” guide provides a diagram of these options that charts the complexity of your content and audiences against the linearity of your site’s structure.
You’ll want to map this out. Get out a piece of paper and sketch how your information should be broken up and rearranged into linked chunks.
How will you utilize menus and links to suggest relationships or provide a map for your material?
How will you utilize menus and links to suggest relationships or provide a map for your material?
The Web Style Guide describes canonical forms and page structures that in web design. Consider which of these “rules” you might want to follow and which you might want to break as you present your information.
Some tools you use will make these choices for you; others will give you a great deal of flexibility in creating navigation and wayfinding for your visitor.
How will you visualize your subject with pictures, maps, diagrams, and other iconography?
How will you visualize your subject with pictures, maps, diagrams, and other iconography?
What will the graphical sensibility of your webtext be?
What sort of consistent visuals will you use to help visitors make sense of their place in your web text?
What sort of consistent visuals will you use to help visitors make sense of their place in your web text?
How will visitors know where they are? In print texts, readers can use space (how far down they are on a page, how many pages they’ve read, how many remain unread) and textual cues (page numbers, headers, and footers).
How will your revise to make your text into a conversation?
How will your revise to make your text into a conversation?
See Redish's textbook for ideas.
What will you need to cut?
What will you need to cut?
Think of this as a book adaptation—you don’t have to cram every bit of text in there; you’re remixing and remediating, and will likely be able to cut elements, or change textual elements to visual ones. Think about the role of cohesive and transitional devices like “first, second, third, therefore, as argued earlier, etc.) in a print text, for example. What visual or spatial elements on a web site do that work?
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