For organizing information, sometimes it's better to "lump" things together; other times it is better to "split" them apart. Scrolling through long web pages is often tedious. Long, single web pages take longer to load over networks when compare to a series of smaller pages.
In many cases, you can identify logical points to "split" information into multiple web-pages. However, there is no magical formula, and opinions will vary. You should strike a balance between pages with breaks that parallel the content yet avoid forcing the reader to click through too many screens of options and sub-options before getting to the desired information. It also becomes important to build in hypertext links that help the reader navigate your information web as well as providing visual clues about their location within the web.
So far we have built one web page with a link to a shorter page. In lesson 8 we created a list of links that works as a table of contents by connecting them to named anchors for the different sections of the Volcano Web lesson. These same divisions might be sensible breakpoints for splitting the single long page into sub-pages.
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