HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SECOND EDITION
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Chapter 16 Hypertext, multimedia and the World Wide Web Icons Page 608

This is an interesting social effect brought on by the ease of web publishing - incomplete (sometimes even non-existent!) information can be made immediately available. It's like buying a map of the world nowadays and finding 'here be dragons' around the edges because the geographer could not be bothered to draw all the countries in. Most pages can be designed properly before they are made available, structured and presented in a complete and coherent way, allowing for extensions and updates from the beginning. There are times when the disclaimer 'under construction' has its uses: when critically important information becomes available, publishing it may well be more important than presenting it (much like older maps with their dragons - if maps had only been printed once the whole world had been explored, civilization would be very different today). There is, too, a sense in which web pages can be continually 'under construction', changing, evolving and growing, because of their dynamic nature and the ease with which they can be updated, but this does not obviate the designer's responsibility to create pages that have both form and content.

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