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When a new issue is added to an online publication, the previous issue is usually bumped into the archives. In a static site, this would accurately be referred to as "the morgue."
 This diagram demonstrates a snapshot of our sample site over a period of time. The current issue is still on the top, and the individual archived issues are represented by the series of pages below it. Notice that no issue has any relationship with another issue. Once an issue is moved to the archives, it becomes a self-contained island in time. The current issue hasn't gained anything from the archives; it's still as limited and isolated as it always was. The only way to access the archives in a static site is for the reader to take action and perform a search. This might be fine for researching a topic, but it's a far cry from actual browsing, or taking advantage of the wealth and depth of a publication's archives. At best, the end result will yield only a short reader path, such as the one demonstrated below.
 Even with the addition of a search engine, this site suffers from limited archival exploration. Leveraging the content to its full potential and offering the reader tangents and new avenues for discovery will never happen given the site's inherent structural constraints.
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