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Don’t you think so that it would be really great to have a hypertext system on the PDAs? If you were actually able to enter a meeting in your calendar, and linking that to the address of the meeting in your address book, additionally linking it to your meeting notes, and further with the email that you had received about the meeting. As a matter of fact the display on the PDAs is way too small to actually enable the switching between the windows therefore it is not really easy to swap between the windows and view the different events like the notes, address or the email. In fact, you have to first open the window and find the event in your calendar and then find the address in your address book and then further find the notes in the notebook and then finally locating the email in your email program.

Therefore, it is very important to have PDA’s that have enabled hypertext. As we know that PDA’s like Nino and Palm are becoming popular by day and is infact becoming an important day to day tool. As a matter of fact you would find a lot of web browsers that come especially for your PDAs. Putting the PDAs on the web is one important task and further it is more important to hypertext enable the applications that are used on the PDAs such as calendar, to do list, address book, email and notes.

All the different activities that are performed by you are all interconnected. Addresses are connected to the events, notes further to the To Do list which is further connected to the entries in your calendar and emails are connected to the persons, their birthdays, and anniversaries and so on. But once these applications are put on to the digital form the device is just not able to read them and therefore it becomes literally impossible to travel between the applications and thereby creating the links and the shortcuts that actually exist in the real world.

The main issue that arises is that the PDAs first have very small memory and also have very limited screen space. Usually when the PDAs are synchronized with the information on the desktops and what is important is to save these links on the PDAs. And another important issue to be considered is to have the browsers that are compatible with all the different PDAs that are available in the market.

If you are using palm for your implementations, it has the inbuilt features like the Phone Lookup Function wherein you can look up for the person in the address book from almost all the applications except for the Email. Although this is an amazing feature but still has certain limitations to it. You are only able to perform the function that is just listed which means just retrieving the information about the person. But just in case it if there are any kind of changes in the personal information about the person, it is not further updated in all the applications if done in one.

Another approach for integrating the core PDA applications would be creating true web based applications that have the applications and also be able to synchronize with the PDAs. The main benefit with this approach would be that it would work or be compatible with any device that supports the web browsers.

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. The user should be able to navigate through information they find interesting. For those who are interested in investigating this subject more closely, we will provide a detailed examination of hypertext in another segment.

With the hypertext information layout, it is necessary that the information is separated into smaller and closed units of information, which are interlocked with each other in an understandable and clear manner.

If, for example, you wanted to display your favourite football club online, then you would need the typical homepage with links to subordinate pages. Each of the subordinate pages should also include a link back to the homepage. You could easily use a subordinate page for the club’s standings, history, roster or schedule, for example. The roster page could then link to other subordinate pages for individual players. With such a subsidiary of a subsidiary page, it is wise to have a link going back the next highest page, as well as a link to the main page. More intersecting links from the standings page to the goal scorer’s page, for example, are also quite reasonable. A network of information then results. Additional links should then help complement the navigational possibilities. In many instances, it is also reasonable to offer so-called guided tours, or a succession of pages that the user can comfortably skim through. Regardless of which project you are undertaking: you should always keep in mind the notion of structure and linking that we explored here.

What we describe here as a page or subsidiary page, should also be a HTML file in a web project. Do not be overwhelmed by the amount of resulting files. The clear structuring of information should always remain the highest priority.

We will examine methods of linking more closely in a separate section and also provide more tips for producing web projects later on.

File Organisation

With every somewhat large project you will soon quickly realise how many HTML, graphics and all kinds of files you end up amassing. In order to keep everything in view, you should either consider a clever filename scheme or create separate subdirectories sorted by topic or area. If you wish to release your project online, then you will have to find out beforehand if you have the right or possibility to load subdirectories onto the web server, where you eventually plan to upload the project. Because in this case you will have to produce the same directory on the server computer as you produced locally, in order for all the references and links to function correctly.