Roy Stringer of Amaze Ltd. believes the basic problem is that typical Web sites arrange information in a hierarchical structure. This leads to continuous wrong turns. A better approach, Stringer reasons, would be to arrange a Web site's information as points on a globe. Later this summer Amaze Ltd. will release its software free for any Web site to use. Stringer's experiment points up a growing dissatisfaction with the way the Web looks and works.
Many critics blame the browser and are trying to develop new ways to navigate the Net.
Later this year, Amaze Ltd. will debut its own browser, specially geared to animations and video. But displacing such a pervasive, if antiquated, software tool as the browser will be a huge challenge. Links go in only one direction, so it's difficult to retrace your steps. The arranging of information sometimes makes no sense, and many sites are just plain ugly. Look at several at one time in a 3-D workspace.