Writing Hypermedia

• Initial observations
• What to avoid
• System- vs author-generated devices
• Rhetoric of arrival
• Rhetoric of departure
• Screen design -- example
  • placement
  • tiling
  • size
  • one or multiple windows
  • text stream or segmented text
  • i. e. pop-up window
• Indicating presence of links (color, font, icon, keys)
• Length of reading unit
  • Adapting texts written for print
• Choosing anchor or block extent
• Labelling documents, links, paths
• Overviews and crossroads documents
  • Intermedia
  • Storyspace
  • Kon-Tiki CD-ROM (Director)
  • She Loves It, She Loves It Not
• Point of entry for entire documents
• Exit point(s): how do we know we're done?
• Visual materials, sound, video (control, replay)
• Help and information files

Last modified 28 January 2005