Charmin’Clearly________________________________________Presentation

This talk about the aspect the hypertext presents. That is how it is exposed in the web to attract the readers, because for a web it is important the aspect, as it is easier to read or to see something that is attractive for the eyes.

The first appearance of Charmin’ clearly web, and the style that predominates through the whole story, is a blue text on a white background which makes it easy to read. Then we have a division of the story in three different parts that give the choice to the reader to start reading whatever they like more. This means that, the author has created three links with different narrators to tell the story in a distinct way that make it better to understand. The first one is the version of the main character, Charmin, which is called: ‘Her Story’, then we have the story of professor Blat: ‘His Story’, and finally: ‘The Other Guy’s’ is where the opinions of the rest of the people are, that means the teachers, the students, parents, etc. As a result of clicking on that links you can start reading the version you prefer. Another distinction is that each story has the first capital letter in a different color, H-H-T, so you know at all time which narrator are you following.

However, the thing that I was more impressed by was the fact that, depending on where paragraph you click on it can takes you to a different story. For example, if you go to ‘Her Story’ and after reading the first page, you click at the first paragraph, the link will take you through Charmin’ story, but if you click on the second paragraph, you will go linked to ‘The Other Guy’s’ story because that piece of paragraph relates to the opinion of the other people. And the same happens if you go to the third paragraph but this time you will go to ‘His Story’ (check it out by yourself). At the beginning this is hard to understand because you could feel that you are not following the story, but quickly you realize what its happening. That is the greatness of the hypertext; you can follow the story you want to. Another thing to mention is that there is other link impossible to see, because it has no color with the white background, and if you click there it is possible to go back to the index of the story and choose another story teller.

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Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Carmina Campos García
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Universitat de València Press