WWW Front Pages, Home Pages, Entry Pages and Root Pages

Abstract

Whenever one has a body of hypertext materials that stands alone either because it occupies an entire system or because it exists, however, transiently, within a frame, the reader has to begin reading at some point, and for the reader, that point is a beginning. (Landow 1994). In his work on origins and openings, Edward W Said explains that, “a work’s beginning is, practically speaking, the main entrance to what it offers ... the designation of a beginning generally involves also the designation of a consequent intention.” (Said 1985). Specification of a beginning page (or document, or node) is an essential element in the definition of a hypertexted information space.