tedster - 11:00 pm on Feb 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

A related usability enhancement comes when articles (or slide shows!) are split into many pages. The easy way out for the page builder is to link page 1 to page 2, then page 2 to page 3 and so on. This forms a sort of "well" or "chimney" that the visitor climbs down into.

But the usablility flaw is that backing up two or three pages, or returning for a second visit to check out page 4 another time becomes a bit of an ordeal.

It takes extra work, and on first glance it might *seem* redundant, to provide links TO every page FROM every page in the article. This linking style is a usability ehancement for human visitors and spiders alike.