The table of contents on a Web site's home page is the menu for selecting other pages. A menu created on a word processor is usually a series of lines of text, underlined and colored to indicate they are links. Clicking on a line displays the page described. A contents menu can also be displayed as a table. PageMill offers other possibilities, including hotspots and frames.
Hotspots are the ultimate graphical table of contents.
Suppose, for example, clip art images of a Windsor chair, a brooch, and a spoon are pasted into one picture using a paint program such as the one that comes with Windows. PageMill lets you draw invisible lines around the individual images and denote these areas as links that can be clicked to reach the corresponding dealer catalog pages. The frames feature allows the viewer's screen to be divided into separate areas. One of these areas can be a fixed table of contents that is always on screen as the other area displays the selected pages of the Web site. Frames make Web site navigation less confusing to the viewer, but they take up valuable real estate on the computer monitor.