When I first wrote the hyperessay, Internet Racism, I thought it was pretty well written out with great formatting and covered everything the professor asked for. With the duration of almost two months passing since finalizing it, I can come from a critic’s point of view and really assess the strength of the project.
In looking at other peer’s essay, there was always that one thought that came through my mind the whole time, “Weren’t we asked to hyperlink at least 3 words for every page?”. I liked how other students were having navigation bars, “Next”, “Previous” buttons, but doesn’t that go away from the idea of hyperessay? The purpose of this project was to go away from the idea of linearity and make each page stand out by itself, while coming together as a whole idea as well. Having navigation bars and these buttons do make navigation much easier for the reader, but it does defer from the original requirements. For the next hyperessay, assuming the professor will allow such actions to be taken place, I would like to have hyperlinks within the page, as well as having a navigation tool for the ease of the reader and simplicity sake.
For pros, I do really like the front page as it has a very short and sweet description of what topic I was going to talk about. Also, the different categories on the bottom of the description that relate to each other got compliments from my group member. The background also does give off this eerie and blurry feeling of how the socioeconomic divide is a scary and blurry topic.
For cons, after going through all of the pages, I could see blandness in most pages as no pictures were evident, just texts and citation. As such, I will add more pictures and make it more interactive with the reader so that no boredom can be possible. Getting rid of the button in the front page would be the most ideal case, but as Weebly does not let you do that (or I have not been able to figure out how to delete such button), I will have to link the button to the introduction umbrella button. In terms of navigation, as mentioned before, hyperlinking just 3 in each page does have its limits as readers may never be able to get to see all the pages just from just trying to navigate through the hyperlinks. However, the splash page does have all the categories listed with every page available in the project, so because of that factor, I don’t think having a navigation bar or buttons/links at the bottom saying “Next” or have all of the pages present is necessary.
In looking at other peer’s essay, there was always that one thought that came through my mind the whole time, “Weren’t we asked to hyperlink at least 3 words for every page?”. I liked how other students were having navigation bars, “Next”, “Previous” buttons, but doesn’t that go away from the idea of hyperessay? The purpose of this project was to go away from the idea of linearity and make each page stand out by itself, while coming together as a whole idea as well. Having navigation bars and these buttons do make navigation much easier for the reader, but it does defer from the original requirements. For the next hyperessay, assuming the professor will allow such actions to be taken place, I would like to have hyperlinks within the page, as well as having a navigation tool for the ease of the reader and simplicity sake.
For pros, I do really like the front page as it has a very short and sweet description of what topic I was going to talk about. Also, the different categories on the bottom of the description that relate to each other got compliments from my group member. The background also does give off this eerie and blurry feeling of how the socioeconomic divide is a scary and blurry topic.
For cons, after going through all of the pages, I could see blandness in most pages as no pictures were evident, just texts and citation. As such, I will add more pictures and make it more interactive with the reader so that no boredom can be possible. Getting rid of the button in the front page would be the most ideal case, but as Weebly does not let you do that (or I have not been able to figure out how to delete such button), I will have to link the button to the introduction umbrella button. In terms of navigation, as mentioned before, hyperlinking just 3 in each page does have its limits as readers may never be able to get to see all the pages just from just trying to navigate through the hyperlinks. However, the splash page does have all the categories listed with every page available in the project, so because of that factor, I don’t think having a navigation bar or buttons/links at the bottom saying “Next” or have all of the pages present is necessary.