Ordering information in a website is a nightmare, no matter how many domains you have, no matter what CMS you use. Technologies are so complex that a tree structure is hardly sufficient as principle for ordering and navigation. Perhaps dynamically generated pages that change according to the perspective of the user (project oriented, hardware oriented, protocol oriented, product oriented …) would be better suited. Such could be created with Processing interfacing to MySql and run as Java applets in a browser.
Alternatives to the known hypertext paradigm have been investigated by many, even before the web was born, for example, Yasuyuki Sumi’s work as graduate student at Todai and later as researcher at ATR.
But are there any solutions out there that one can use in one’s website? Well if not, we’ll have to work on one here, as it fits many of the other projects in progress.
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