Combining Links and Content

Nov 03, 2004

When you write for a web page there is a great attraction for using hyper-links. Even I cannot resist the temptation of linking different pages to a single paragraph just to encapsulate lots of information in short text.

Although a web page is mostly written in a hyper-text language, it does not mean we use hyper-links at the drop of a hat. They are extremely useful, no denying that, but an over-dosage can end up utterly distracting the reader.

Just as a side note, when I talk of links, I don’t mean the navigation links. Whenever I mention hyper-links, they are the links, for instance:

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