04-09-2018, 04:04 AM
Todd,
Your ideas seem reasonable to me.
FWIW, I tend to think of the EG as being like a spider's web: you can start with any article and follow its links to other pages which expand on similar topics but also can lead to entirely new (to the reader) subject material. And it can be quite sticky, making it difficult to get away from.
Making it easier to navigate the introductory articles seems to be an appropriate goal. Personally, I dislike short pages which have links to many other short pages. In most cases, I like to see more information in a single page, although perhaps with a table of contents to help navigate through its concepts. In contrast, many people (including myself, I have to admit, so I'm not entirely consistent) have an aversion to a "wall of text" which has nothing visual to distinguish one set of words from another.
Your ideas seem reasonable to me.
FWIW, I tend to think of the EG as being like a spider's web: you can start with any article and follow its links to other pages which expand on similar topics but also can lead to entirely new (to the reader) subject material. And it can be quite sticky, making it difficult to get away from.
Making it easier to navigate the introductory articles seems to be an appropriate goal. Personally, I dislike short pages which have links to many other short pages. In most cases, I like to see more information in a single page, although perhaps with a table of contents to help navigate through its concepts. In contrast, many people (including myself, I have to admit, so I'm not entirely consistent) have an aversion to a "wall of text" which has nothing visual to distinguish one set of words from another.
Selden