Monday, October 20, 2008

Anchoring part deux

Apparently I misunderstood the concept of anchoring and chunking Website design principals. Opps. Hey, mistakes are the best way to learn right?

In an effort to redeem myself, I scoured the Internet looking for subheads that would take me to another place on the Web page not another site (anchoring). I also clicked my way through about half a dozen sites looking for examples of chunking-when a story is split between several Web pages. It's like of like each paragraph gets its own page.

After an exhaustive search of more than half a dozen sites, I was unsuccessful.

Sigh.

Apparently, my regular sites do it right, so to speak. So cyberspace: Do you all know where someone can click to actually see these concepts.

1 comment:

Suzanne Levinson said...

No. But journalism texts and professors keep on insisting this is the way to do it. I usually give it short shrift in class, and it's true most media sites agree it would be a good idea, if only they had time to work with every story that way. They just don't, and until it can be automated, it's not going to happen. Too much work, too few people.