From PlainText To HyperText

This web site is dedicated to illustrate the conversion of
conventional texts to hypertexts. Students in Daniel Anderson's E309M class, at the University
of Texas at Austin, were directly exposed to this process. Some people criticize
the technology of the internet as impersonal and uncultured since it does not take
years of writing experience to create a successful web site as opposed to a novel.
As a matter of fact, hypertexts help people that have trouble writing formal documents
by allowing them a different way of expressing themselves with pictures and sounds, and a
more flexible way of organizing their arguments. Plaintexts can then be improved in
their readability and effectiveness by undergoing this conversion process. The gains
that hypertexts have over plaintexts can best be seen through the use of a simple example.

Follow the steps that outline the conversion of a plaintext into a hypertext
(by clicking on a phase).

Plain Text
Adding Images
Adding Links
HyperText

[Note that this web site is not intended as an HTML tutorial, but to show
the process and improvements that plaintexts go through to become hypertexts ]



Suggestions? Comments?

Dionicio L. Rodriguez
University of Texas at Austin