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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Aug 8, 2007 6:00PM

I am reviewing an application in development that requires dozens of
fields to be completed. (We have lots of information to gather, so there
is no getting around the sheer number of fields.) We're trying to figure
out where to try to fit between these two extremes:
---an infinite number of one-field pages
---one page with an infinite number of fields

(I exaggerate only slightly.)

Is there good research out there to give a sense of how to balance
"many pages of few fields" and "few pages of many fields"? (Each "page"
will end with a "Done" button or similar interface to check and verify
the data received so far.)


Cliff Tyllick
Web development coordinator
Agency Communications Division
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
512/239-4516
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