3 A's

Maggie Ryan's website took a very graphic design approach. The splash page is easy to navigate with the solid black background and large white typeface on the right side. The site feels more like a designed pamphlet than a website which is nice since it break up hypertextual monotony. The internal project pages take after the splash page and are also very east to navigate and read. It shows that a considerable amount of time was taken to design the site. For example, the slang dictionary in the personal hypertext project was a valuable and well designed addition to that project. The civic engagement project, Are You Happy, has its own nested splash page that makes the hypertextual essay seem more engaging and dynamic. Although the site lacks a consistent typographic style, all of the text is legible and easy to read. Lastly, the inclusion of a photo gallery made the personal hypertext much more enjoyable to go through since it was grounded in something more than just text.

Another site that was done exceptionally well was Jamie Speigal. One element that always makes a site more enjoyable to navigate is the legibility of the fonts on the page. Jamie's splash page is simple, but the simplicity makes it easy to find what you are looking for. This simplicity permeates the rest of the site. The personal hypertext project is split up into a two column design that is easy to understand. Once again, the project has many thoughtful additions to it such as recipes nested in a glog and a page dedicated to highlighting some of her favorite super foods. The civic engagement project is very hypertextual which makes for a much more interactive experience. For example, when the film be kind rewind is referenced it can be clicked and the browser will navigate to the IMDB website. These thoughtful additions made the webpage a much more engaging experience overall.

Another website that I liked was Jamie Coakley's. Jamie's web-page is a great of example of how less can be more when it comes to design. The uses a white background with mostly black text, making it very legible. The content of the pages supports the simplicity of the design. The reading response is very hypertual with links leading in and out of the site so that the reader can better understand the issue at hand. Another thoughtful element of the site is that in the hypertext essay pages there is a unique quote at the top of each page that has to do with the content at hand. This addition, although small, makes the reading experience much more dynamic. With the personal hypertext project the images are helpful and not overwhelming, on a lot of the other sites there are just too many images, often to compensate for a lack of content; however, Jamie's page tactfully incorporates meaningful pictures to compliment the text.