FootPrints FootPrints FootPrints consists of a collection of tools used for making navigation and the collection of information on the web easier and more efficient. The tools used are map, paths, annotations and signposts. The user can ask for the linked sites for any page in the map, or she can click once on nodes to view the title of a particular document, or click twice to view the page in the browser.
Color coding is used for categorizing the popularity of the sites.
The Path tool is a set of documents displayed in a tree-like configuration to show paths followed by other users. The paths chosen are only the ones that contain the current document. By clicking once the user can view the title of the document, and by clicking twice she can view the document in the web browser. Paths are coded by the amount of usage. The Annotations show the respective percentages of users that visited links in the document.