Tutorial 27: The Care and Feeding of Hyperlinks, Part III
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Putting it into practice
Let's start with a pretty idealized example: A page in a book that is published online. Let's assume we're in page 3, chapter 21, section B in the book. This book will probably be presented in a hierarchical tree structure, with a home page at the top, then several sections, which are subdivided into chapters, which are themselves subdivided into pages. In addition, we have a table of contents, an index, a glossary, a copyright notice and a page assisting users in reading the book. The diagram below illustrates this structure.
This chart shows the structure of a Web site containing the full text of a book. The green boxes indicate pages, while the blue lines show the navigation links that start from the highlighted page. [Full-sized image]
Putting these links into HTML form, we come up with something like the following:
<LINK REL="Next" HREF="./page4" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Chapter 21, Page 4"> <LINK REL="Prev" HREF="./page2" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Chapter 21, Page 3"> <LINK REL="Start" HREF="./page1" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Chapter 21, Page 1"> <LINK REL="Up" HREF="./" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Chapter 21, Introduction"> <LINK REL="Chapter" HREF="./" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Chapter 21, Introduction"> <LINK REL="Home" HREF="../../" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Home"> <LINK REL="Contents" HREF="../../contents" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Table of Contents"> <LINK REL="Section" HREF="../" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Section B"> <LINK REL="Index" HREF="../../index" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Index"> <LINK REL="Glossary" HREF="../../glossary" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Glossary"> <LINK REL="Help" HREF="../../help" TITLE="MORONS in Action - How to Use this Book"> <LINK REL="Copyright" HREF="../../legalese" TITLE="MORONS in Action - Copyright and legal notices"> <LINK REL="Author" HREF="arnold@acme.com" TITLE="Arnold Propellerhead, Author">
