Week 9: 3 points and a question

1. Designing is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking. The typographer’s art concerns not only the positive grain of letterforms, but the negative gaps between and around them. (67)
2. In our much-fabled era of information overload, a person can still process only one message at a time. This brute fact of cognition is the secret behind magic tricks: sleights of hand occur while the attention of the audience is drawn elsewhere. Given the fierce competition for their attention, users have a chance to shape the information economy by choosing what to look at. Designers can help them make satisfying choices. (75)
3. Dynamic Web sites use databases to build pages on the fly as users search for specific content. Databases cut across the planned hierarchy of a site, bringing up links from different levels and content areas-or from other Web sites. (99)

Question: Regarding the third question, how would one bring up links form different levels and content areas-or from other Web sites?