Website hierarchy and the interaction between content organization, webpage and navigation design: A systemic functional hypermedia discourse analysis perspective

Information Design Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-162

  Djonov, Emilia ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children's websites; Hypermedia discourse; Information architecture; Social semiotics; Systemic functional theory; User orientation; Website hierarchy; Website usability

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249134836     PISSN: 01425471     EISSN: 1569979X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/idj.15.2.07djo     Document Type: Review

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