On the Web, the whole of any given text can be hard to see in a visual sense. However, as people read, and reread the text, the connections begin to form a strucutre within which the text exists. A common strategy is to include a site map or visual representation of the structure of a give site.  More traditional tactics can be used as well. A table of contents is nothing more than an explanation of the structure go a given text.

Click on Site Map to see a map of this project!

In addition to graphical representations, a sense of the individual parts in relationship to the whole can be gleaned through other features available on the website. For example, a drop-down list, such as shown below, provides an alphabetical listing of the lexia or individual pages contained in this site.

Click on the down arrow to see available selections. Then single click on go to select the Page.

In both these examples, the site information is displayed, yet the information conveyed between the two methods is quite unique.  The drop-down menu gives the reader no sense of the relationship of any of these pages to the other while the Site Map clearly shows how the various ideas contained in this site are organized.