Thursday, May 1, 2008

ONLINE vs print

In the designing of online website, it’s more different compared to print.There are a few factors that pertain to this fact on of which is that we have been using the internet for such a long time now that it’s become cognitive.

This is proven by Oakley Todd (2006) where we as humans today can simply navigate through the internet because everything is in a cognitive form.

Because we are so familiar with the internet and the uses for it, Karen Shriver also presses on the fact of multimodal text. This is what most WebPages are today mainly because you read what you want,when you want.

Everything is just a simple push of a button away. Unlike print, the reading path is very linear meaning you have to read from top to bottom to follow the particular article. But in a multimodal text in this case a webpage, one can navigate to the particular article that one might be interested to read without the restraints of the article.

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