This new version of the page is more useful than the original page, as we can now identify who wrote the page and why. It also provides us with suggestions as to where to go next (particularly important if we've found the page through a search engine or external link.
Some may note that this page is fairly busy. It is also significantly longer than the original page. The page designer must make a decision as to the best balance between providing enough, but not too much context. By appropriate use of rules, font sizes, and layout, a designer can often include more context without severely interfering with readability.
In this page, the designer has used horizontal rules and different font sizes to set the main text off from the contextual information. If the designer continues to use this design on all pages in the site, readers will quickly become accustomed to the design, and should be able to skip over the context when it is unnecessary. (Note that there are certainly other design decisions possible.)
Although this page contains a wealth of contextual information, it could still be improved in many ways. First, it is less hypertextual than linear (or perhaps hierarchical). This page might include a link to a discussion of the Talmud, and perhaps even a visualization of note cards for those who don't use them. Some hypertext researchers would suggest that these links not only be included within the text, but summarized at the end of the page.
The initial hierarchical context may also confuse some readers. Are the vertical lines used to separate pages at equivalent levels, or to provide a hierarchy (the latter is true). Unfortunately, there is no standard for presenting this information. Some use arrows, some use vertical bars, some use slashes (to mimic a directory structure), some use colons. Since many use vertical bars to separate pages at the same level, it is probably inappropriate to use them as level separators on this page.
The visually impaired might also have some difficulty with this type of page, as it provides a significant amount of "useful, but not universally necessary" information before the true body.
This page created Sun Jun 15 08:20:25 1997 by SamR's Site Suite.