WebWise: Guide to McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at University of Texas Southwest Web Site
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This, the seventh installment of the WebWise series, reviews the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Texas Southwest (UTSW) web site. Please note that the web address reported in the first WebWise installment (Pruitt 1997) has changed; the UTSW web site has relocated to http://gestec.swmed.edu/. As with all of the WebWise reviews, you may find it useful to point your Browser Window to the UTSW Home page while reading. This web site uses an abundance of links; to better illustrate the location of pages of interest, many links are omitted from the site map (Fig.1). The main features of this web site, as well as the features of those sites already reviewed, are indicated in Table1.
Site map for the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at UTSW. The main links to pages discussed in the text are illustrated here. Links on the top of the Home Page are to general informational resources, whereas the links located on the bottom portion are to the data and additional tools. Some links available on the web site are not indicated here.
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Features of the UTSW Web Site
General Information
The overall browsing experience of the UTSW web site is enhanced by uniform style and organization presented on the pages. This web site emphasizes organization, navigation links, and a more sophisticated use of color, which has the overall effect of presenting a more polished web site. Pages are organized into categories, with links to these categories provided on the left side of the Home page (http://gestec.swmed.edu/). The organizational strategy used at this site is analogous to a branching tree structure—from the Home page several branches (main categories) can be reached from which additional branches (subcategories) emerge, and so forth.
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