The Color of Television

On the textual subject of The Color of Television and Pax, I found that they both resembled the other textual media that we have studied.  The on that I choose was The Color of Television; I choose it because of the color format.  Plus it did not have a lot of different links on most of the pages it mostly dealt with color combining. 

The page’s links to each of the writers and builder of the site through their email addresses.  The graphic structure was gracefully done with colors that were soothing to the eye which made the text readable.  There was enough gutter pace to enhance the flow of the page with a clean well organize appearance and present that the pages edges with an infinite appearance as in Understanding Comic.  It forced the reader to interact by making clicks because there was no automatic sequencing.  The page content was consistent with its format because most of the material was about group member’s personal lives.   It also had a great deal of dead in the text much like Calvino. 

You could click on all the images, but not much of the text; the index page had four elements: 2 graphic and 2 textural elements.  Three of the four home page elements took you to the: http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/cotv/bios.html ((link­_1”), while the other link took you to: http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/cotv/cotv01.html (“link_ 2”).  The link_1 went to the Moulthrop and Cohen’s contact page.  Embedded in the page was several smaller graphic art work or symbols that the reader could click.  The only place that symbol went was to link_1.  Then you saw the top graphic flash the color red and the bottom one flashed the color green. Their contact page trapped you with only two outlets and that was to email the developers because the dialogue graph at the bottom went to an error page.  This reminded me off Mystery House Taken Over where I got trapped and could not get out. 

The link that took you to a textual page was the centered in the page with gray coloring, but it took you on a surprising trip to richly colored text forming boarders around each other.  The colors complemented the text that it was next to and was neatly formatted.  It had some links in the text but not many but they went to other text, however, all the symbols that I clicked went to text with a message.  The text pages begin with flashing colored boxes and ended with a gray flashing bar.  The text colors could be joined together to form new textual messages the clue was in matching the colors.  The word links went to text that told a story and had the word their somewhere, or some symbol to represent the message such as when you clicked on color and flashing colored bars were on both sides of the text. 

It was not until I got into the text portion of the site that I recognized that the site displayed textual similarities as Bust Down the Door with roll, changing, and flashing message at different parts of the story.