For a webpage or online article to be engaging, it needs to be a little more than a screen full of text. This is where the careful art of juxtaposing pictures with text comes into focus. We all have heard the colloquialism that a picture says more than a thousand words, and in the case of supporting an argument in a hypertextual environment, it is very true.

A careful choice has to be made when choosing to juxtapose one idea against another. The audience must be carefully taken into account. For this (hyper)paper, I could arbitrarily choose a picture that resembled real life, but was actually created within a virtual, hyperreal environment.

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An entire day could be taken up in the discussion of aesthetics in online writing, and I would love to do so, but I cannot, because this is not a readerly text and that makes whatever I would like to discuss irrelevant. All that would need to be done is for readers to remember that hypertext is a writerly medium and they would just have to click on whatever caught their fancy and head off in that direction, leaving me to babble on ad infinitum, in a not-real medium...