When writing the Hypertexts I often found myself editing my sentences and paragraphs more that I would have if I were writing a short paper about a similar subject. With the constraints of an online website I didn’t want to run the text too long in an effort to keep my viewers interested. I think that websites with too much text appear lop-sided and lost aesthetic value.

I knew relatively little about web design before this class, apart from using wordpress for a blog that I update. My actual website fabrication skills are not fine tuned by any means, but I see these practices to be very essential in the world after college so I definitely plan on continuing to use similar software. I really liked learning about how to create a page, and how to link pages through to other pages. I still need to work on how to make the lay out of my web pages look cleaner and prettier.

I really like the way that my hypertexts appear to tell a story, but I think that there are a few things I need to work on before handing in the final copy. Though a story is being told, the transitions between the pages is a big rough, so I plan on adding transitional sentences with a link to the next page at the bottom of each previous page so that the pages flow more like a story, and readers don’t have to scroll back up to the top of the page to find the link for the next page.

I’m used to having my works publicly accessible. The blog I was referring to earlier is for public view, seeing over 30,000 unique views a month. My blog also has a comments section where anyone can speak their mind on the works I have posted. I was offended by criticism at first, but now I look at it as a way to train myself to write and blog better. Having your work on a public forum was definitely daunting at first, and I didn’t want to show it to anyone for fear of being criticized. But I look at it as a way to learn more about your writing that you would in class discussion. The anonymity of the web allows people to really tell you what they think of your writing, without any sugar coating. I think that is essential to really push yourself when it comes to making strides in your writing ability.