Hypertext : Theory into Practice

A second edition of the bestseller Hypertext: Theory into
Practice, provides

• a fully updated introduction to the subject
• margin comments to directly indicate where developments have
  occured
• a new design to allow for this innovation.

Contents

• Overview and questions for readers
• Navigation and browsing in Hypertext
• Collaborative writing in NoteCards
• A learning-support environment
• Database development using Apple's HyperCard
• Design issues in large hypertext systems
• Cognitive mapping and navigation in a Hypertext
  environment
• Human factors engineering and interface development
• Authoring hypertext documents
• Knowledge Analysis Tool: KANT
• A faceted approach to hypertext?
• Towards intelligent hypertext

A hypertext system allows the user non-sequential access to
information, thereby putting the user in control of the way in which
it is used. The need for this book is emphasised by the breakneck
development of the World Wide Web, but other published work since the
first edition has a considerable gap, with:

• no common pool of knowledge about hypertext
• little cross-referencing between papers in the field
• no acknowledgement that workers come to it from a variety of
  traditions.

By bringing together authors from the different traditions, the
first edition quickly became a bestseller. The demand for this
pertinent, succinct introduction to the subject has continued
unabated for five years.

Revisions and updates have been made so that this fully revised
edition remains as important now as the first edition has been so
far.