Architectural Web Portal and Interactive CAD Learning in Hungary - Web-Based Engineering Education: Critical Design and Effective Tools - page 25

At the starting location of the professional
surface, one of the following main themes can
be selected:

• Domestic and foreign periodicals, jour-

nals, etc. (red);

• Articles written by university lecturers

(green);

• General • Certain articles of higher importance writ-

ten by authors “from the outside” (brown). • Building Design & Construction, and CAD

• Urban & Settlement Development, and

History Owing to this multi-level grouping, it is much

easier to search for something, and at the same
time, a requirement set by the lecturers' community
is also fulfilled, i.e. engineering ability and sense
of our students in making things more reasonable
and rationalized must be developed, and the way
from great agglomeration (clusters) to the smaller
sections of elements must be observed and realized .
This site-map principle makes - similarly to
the matrix-principle - several information gaining
strategies possible. It is also possible to decide
whether to choose from the five subgroups within
each main theme, or the subgroups with the same
colour (i.e. periodicals, journals, etc.) represent
the primary point of view for the search and the
selection of a certain main theme (i.e. a given
field of profession) remains at the second level
(secondary point of view).
Since there are several links in the cluster
selected on the basis of both the primary and the
secondary selection point of view (i.e. several
journals on building construction), thereby a third
level of differentiation should be derived.
Through modification of the link names, a qua-
ternary differentiation may partly also be realized:

• History of Architecture, and Protection of

Heritage

• Building Construction Science, and

Building Execution

• Ecological (Green) Buildings, Building

Installation, and Building Physics

• Design Drawing and Descriptive Geometry

• Supporting Structures

If one may change the main theme selected
before, it is not necessary to go back to the top
of the homepage because there are direct links
for the main themes on the side bar, too. At the
very beginning of the professional surface, but
distinctly separated in graphical way from the
main themes, certain emphasis is given to the
access to some of the most important homepages
(e.g. Department of Architect Engineering, PhD
Education, Professional Practice Abroad, College
“Baross Gábor” for Advanced Technical Studies,
or a link to the homepage of the Association of
Building Construction Science Branch in Győr).
The structure of the database is similar to a
site-map (a kind of link-maps) which results in
choice able to demonstrate nearly at the same time
from all the main theme blocks down to the links
representing in this meaning the smallest building
elements. A novel kind of solution used that links
are not listed featureless but are organized into
five subgroups kept apart by spectacular colour
markings .
The following subgroups can be found within
all of the main themes:

• Separation of lecture notes from education

supports and aids with the help of deter-
mining additional words;

• Discrimination of the most important doc-

ument owners with supplemental words
(authors, universities, countries, etc.);

• Emphasized display of the names of peri-

odicals and journals from foreign countries
by capital letter;

• Education material (lilac); • Separation of periodicals and journals with

on-line full-text from those with only con- • Useful professional links (blue);