1.4.2 Navigation buttons in the web document

Figure 1.3 shows the first page of the WebMaker User Guide, as it appears in a browser.

Figure 1.3 First page of the WebMaker User Guide

As you can see in Figure 1.3, the first page of the WebMaker User Guide contains three navigational buttons, labeled Next, Contents, and Index. If you click on the Next button, you see the "next page" of the web document. If you continue to press Next, you can see all the text of the web document in the same order that it appears in FrameMaker, or in the hardcopy document. If you click on the Contents button, you go directly to a page that contains a detailed table of contents, as shown in Section 1.4.3, "Table of contents". If you click on the Index button, you go directly to a page that contains an index of this document, as shown in Section 1.4.4, "Index".

The navigation buttons appear both at the top and bottom of the page, as a convenience for the people who read this web document. It is always useful to have navigation buttons at the top of the web page, and having them at the bottom of the web page is useful for pages that are larger than one screen.

The first page of the WebMaker User Guide contains some text, and after the text it contains links to the top-level sections of the web document. You can click on any of these links to go to that section. Clicking on the link labeled "Contents" has the same effect as clicking on the Contents navigational button. Similarly, clicking on the link labeled "Index" has the same effect as clicking on the Index navigational button.

Figure 1.4 shows another page in the WebMaker User Guide.

Figure 1.4 Section 1.4 of the WebMaker User Guide

The page in Figure 1.4 has additional navigational buttons: Previous, Up, and Top. The Previous button brings you to the page that occurs immediately before this page of the document. In this case, if you click on Previous, you go to section 1.3. The Previous button is the opposite of the Next button.

The Up button brings you up one level in the document to the section that contains this subsection. In this case, 1.4 is a subsection of section 1, so clicking the Up button in 1.4 brings you up one level to section 1. The first line of text in this page shows the name of the section that includes this section; this line tells you which section is Up.

The Top button brings you to the top page, or first page, of this web document. In this case, Top brings you to the page shown in Figure 1.3.

Note that each page automatically shows only the navigational buttons that are appropriate for that page. Thus, the first page of the web document has no Top button (because that page is the top), no Previous button (because there is no page previous to the first page), and no Up button (because there is no section that is up a level from the first page).