RE: Where do you place the Glossary hyperlink? Phase 2 question

Subject: RE: Where do you place the Glossary hyperlink? Phase 2 question
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:09:55 -0700 (PDT)


> I can certainly see your point in doing this, and I don't think
> it's a bad idea in principal. You're possibly giving them more
> opportunities than they need to follow the link, but since
> you're not writing a sales brochure, more information is
> preferable to less.
>
> My only question for you is this: do you follow this rule
> absolutely, or
...
> paragraphs becoming so dense with links that it becomes distracting
> to the reader, and that might start getting some users annoyed
> instead of grateful for your effort.

I do follow it absolutely. Yes, sometimes, the paragraph is
"link-dense". In those cases, I either attempt to rewrite the content
better, or I file it under the category of "nothing is perfect" and
hope the benefit outweights the problem. I probably have 3-4
paragraphs in a 160 page document where this might be the case, and
it's a number I can live with.



John Posada
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RE: Where do you place the Glossary hyperlink? Phase 2 question: From: Nuckols, Kenneth M

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