Guidance to Web Page Hits and Misses
We all started out in school learning to read books because children need to touch and feel concrete objects before they can deal with abstract objects.
English is written from left to right and from top to bottom.  Other languages are written differently.  Cherokee is  written from right to left and from top to bottom.  Chinese is written from top to bottom and from left to right.  The three paragraphs shown in this example can be read in any order and still make good sense.  The new term for this example is modular and/or  stand-alone.  This is obviously linear/book format but there is greater diversity than the average linear/book format.  This is a common characteristic of Web Design which allows users to scroll randomly.
Children can be easily fooled by almost anyone who tells them almost anything.  Everybody goes through that stage and we are embarrassed when we realize just how gullible we were as youngsters.
We have forgotten how hard it was to learn to concentrate on the printed page and how many distractions we have learned to ignore.
The following example is hierarchical format where the paragraphs can be read from top to bottom or from left to right and still make good sense.
Each of us comes into the world with physical properties which we inherited from our ancestors which go back for countless generations.
Our earliest ancestors lived very differently from the way we live now.  Our five senses are tuned to perceive things that were vital to those early ancestors.  There is nothing that each of us can do to change our physical properties.  We must learn to use what nature has given us.
Each of us goes through extensive training as youngsters to prepare us for what our society expects.  The first obstacle is learning to control own body followed closely by learning to communicate with other people.  Scientists are still struggling to understand language development.  That stage of our lives is dominated by our heredity which is tuned to the natural world of our early ancestors.
Civilized people live in a world surrounded by the trappings of their civilized culture.  They have stories to explain their culture which they are expected to learn at an early age.  If they are good members of their society, the society will protect them while they lead a happy live.  These people are taught to concentrate on whatever the culture values, such as reading and writing.
Primitive people live in a world surrounded by frightening things, both real and imagined.  They dream up all kinds of stories to explain what is happening.  If everything goes well, they will  lead happy lives untroubled by any evil spirits.  They must watch for these evil spirits everywhere.  These primitive people are taught to constantly be vigilant, always scanning their eyes around them.
Civilized people have detailed rules about numbering and labeling all kinds of objects.  Some of these rules seem silly to people from other civilizations.  The strangest rules of all concern computers and Internet usage.  Most people use the skills they learned in books to help them make sense of the NEW technology.  Most of the time that approach is acceptable, but there are some surprises.
Primitive people normally have some words which correspond to numbers.  Usually, they use their fingers and toes for counting but occasionally they will use other objects.  They usually create arts and crafts which may include numbers or abstract symbols.  However, they do not normally have strict rules about how you should use these numbers and symbols.
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