Navigation
You will find our main links at the top of each page :
* links to ArtRealite.com, Dotapea.com and
Pourpre.com ;
* but also those to some important
sections such as ”Topics”, “References”, “Glossary”, “News and Tips”.
The information written in the left margin is a lot more detailed and
will help you, from top to bottom, to:
* get to the traditional « Who are we ?”
and to the principal head of section for each topic (“Topics Navigation”);
* go from a page to another (“Page/Section
Navigation”, “Articles Index”, “Sister Pages”).
Navigation through a section (and through the whole web site) can be done
using the “above”, “prev”, and “next” key.
The structure can be compared to a root: “above” meaning “back to the
surface”, i.e, to the general. On the other hand, “Articles Index” will lead
you the ramification of the root, i.e, to the detail.
The “Sister Pages” functionality, which is unfortunately seldom
implemented on the web, seemed quite useful to us. You may use it as often
as you wish since it will allow you to explore directly the subjects within
a level.
Structure
The Topics section is, with the Glossary, at the core of Dotapea.com. In
fact, it gets onto the main issues in Plastic Arts and related fields (in a
non exhaustive way: we planned some developments).
The other important sections are more utilitarian: “Write to us”,
“References”, “News and Tips”, “Site Map” and “Search”.
The editorial point of view is a very different matter:
We try, as far as possible, to associate the products and techniques.
For instance, grouping together and partitioning everything related to
oil paint, then everything related to gouache, and then to such or such
discipline appeared outmoded and impractical.
In the same way, if nothing keeps you from applying oil paint on a finely
primed aluminium plate or structure, a “traditional” segmentation of
knowledge would not provide any explanation about two processes apparently
so unconnected.
And it would not urge the reader on trying to combine them.
Besides, many products can be used in different disciplines of Plastic Arts
(for ex: pigments, plaster, clay).
