Hypertext Gardens

First, describe your experience of reading Hypertext Gardens, as well as your overall response to the piece. Second, describe what rhetorical choices the author made that you believe encouraged you to have these experiences and responses.

To be honest when I first started to read "Hypertext Gardens" I was a little annoyed. The information was short and blocky. I did not know where I was going to proceed next. The site seemed more like a garden maze (as in the movie the Shinning). The site lacked a overall map of the web pages. Having a map, or at least a button that says home, would have been more benificial. Even most big gardens have maps. With this aside the informatation about how to design webpages was very good. It encouraged me to keep on clicking the links. Also, having the links in diffrent pages helpted me pay attention to the text better. The author's use of pictures helped focus a idea that he was explaining into reality. Using the pictures in turn helped me to visualize what he was talking about. Lastly, having the header hypertext gardens provided continuty in the webpage. I did not feel that I was leaving the site and the diffrent hyperlinks made it interesting to go through the varous webpages.