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News

• Problem: given a large and dynamic web-site, how do you tell users that there is new information or updates somewhere inside the site?
• Motivation
• Forces:
    – Users must be aware of changes and new information
    – In huge Web-sites it is not a good solution to compromise structure in order to make updates easy available
• Solution
    – Structure the home page in such a way a space is devoted to the newest additions
    – Presenting descriptive “headlines” regarding them
    – Use those headlines as anchors to link them with their related pages
• Known uses