WebWise: Guide to the Washington University Center for Genetics in Medicine Web Site
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This installment of the WebWise series reviews the Washington University Center for Genetics in Medicine (CGM) web site. As with the previous WebWise reviews, you may find it useful to point your Browser Window to the CGM web site while reading. Redundant links are omitted from the site map displayed in Figure 1. The main features of this web site, as well as the features of those sites already reviewed, are indicated in Table 1.
Site map for the Washington University Center for Genetics in Medicine. 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; 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 CGM Web Site
General Information
The CGM Home page utilizes the current “style standard” for informational web site presentation. A navigational toolbar is provided at the top of the page, additional links to more specific subject areas are provided along the left side of the page, and some introductory text is located in the body of the page. This general design is widely used by informational web sites as it facilitates navigation and information retrieval. The CGM web site presents this format on a few pages, but unfortunately this style is not used consistently on all pages. Although the navigation toolbar is only available on a couple of the internal pages, a Return to Top link to the Home page is supplied at the bottom of some (but not all) of the pages lacking the navigation toolbar. For pages without any navigation links, the bookmarked Home page, or the Browsers Go Back function allows one to return to a page of interest. …
