Web Maps    Navigation for the Digital Frontier       by Bernard Cole

          Rendezvous at the iApplianceWeb  

Web Maps like those below make iApplianceWeb more than just a location on the Web to go  to for new product, and technology news. 

It's a destination for pioneers and settlers of the Internet-centric frontier of computing and network appliances!  Like the western frontier trading posts and forts at St. Louis, Missouri; Fort Laramie, Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and even Chicago, Illinois, this site can serve as a navigational starting point to the new territories.   

iApplianceWeb and its maps make this site a destination to come to first and rendezvous and get your bearings with up to date information about this new  frontier. Use them to explore every aspect of the new Internet-centric computing appliance products and technologies for embedded, consumer, desktop, handheld, wireless; server, router, switch and switch applications as well as the supporting security, protocol, and storage infrastructure and the software and hardware tools to build them.

 iApplianceWeb Map
 

iApplianceWeb Map allows navigation of this site.  It is organized to help find information on new products and technologies related to the new net centric digital computing frontier.  

  
  iApplianceWeb Technews
 

The Technews Map uses The Brain Technologies'  XML/Java Top Map architecture to provide links to other technology news sites on the Web that provide information useful to users and developers of the new Internet Centric Computing and Communications Appliances, from handhelds to servers, software and hardware.

  iAppliance Web Portals

Navigating With Web Maps

To activate the maps select a web map link.  After a short delay the map will load as a separate floating map behind a new Web page opened to the home page for that map. Minimize the map and refer to it when you want to access information here or at other locations.

Click on a specific level of the tree. The web page associated with the item on the tree will open and the map will adjust its focus so  and the underlying web page on the tree will display.

You can navigate to a particular location or article in a number of ways.   Enter a keyword in the search box in the lower left hand corner of the map.  A list of all articles with that word or sequence of words in the title or keyword associated with it will appear.  You can do nested keyword entries to narrow down your search to a category, a product, a department, a company or an external link containing associated information.

Clicking on an item will adjust the location of the map. The map will center on the article.   To Return to the starting home page, by simply click on the circular yellow tab in the lower right corner of the map.

If  there are more locations on the map than can be contained in the map's window  use the yellow vertical or horizontal movement arrows to scroll or resize the map. To resize the map simply move your normal shift arrow cursor the edge of the map window where it will change into a double pointed vertical resize arrow. Resize the window until l you can see more of the entries.

The larger screen area is also useful when you have done a search and have more hits than can be seen in the original default window size. By using the vertical resize arrow you can expand the size of the map arrow until all of the hits that came up can be viewed. Click on a choice from the list and the map will re-adjust and take you to the appropriate location.