Once you're into the body of the information, then a more prose-writing style can be used. This is highly related to the questions about what kind of readers are you targeting. One type of informational purpose is using Web documents as a source of information for technical and administrative support for computer systems. At Simon Fraser's Computing Science department , they are using Web documents to support the various applications that are being used. Entertainment Lots of visuals, sounds, and perhaps even movies are well-suited to entertainment applications.
Some applications dynamically generate images based on user events.
But because of the limited bandwidth on the Internet right now, entertainment applications are fairly limited. They have set up a robot arm and a video camera in a lab looking at an area of dirt, giving the illusion that you are searching for artifacts in some exotic locale. Users are able to send commands to the arm to move, or puff air to clean away dirt to expose artifacts. These kind of applications require a high knowledge of imagemaps, CGI scripts, and other server features which are beyond the scope of this Guide. But stylistically, the interface to this kind of application must be clean, intuitive, and straightforward to use.