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Stepping through a site navigator applet

Enhance your Web site with a convenient, hierarchial interface

By Michael Shoffner, JavaWorld.com, 01/01/97

Navigation tools can be used to improve the accessibility of a Web site by providing a clean, simple interface through which visitors can locate the deepest, darkest recesses of the site, without having to negotiate a maze of links, or having to wait for a search engine to imagine the most improbable page that happens to have a particular search string in it.

This article includes the following sections:

• Overview of the problem
• Using navigator
• Applet parameters
• Site map file
• Overview of navigator classes
• Class Sextant
• Class Navigator
• Class Page
• Class Element
• Conclusion

Overview of the problem

The navigator applet operates by opening a window displaying a list of the Web site contents. Users can easily navigate this list and select pages; the navigator displays further information about each selected page, and offers the user an option of opening up the selected page in a browser window.

 

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