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novelties
Colour and mixed fonts remain one of the 'simpler' novelties that appear in student hypertexts. My first response to this in the classroom had always been to advise that you can change colours, but try not to unless you have good reason, otherwise "it just looks like you're in primary school and have just got a new set of Derwents".
But, regardless (or because) of these warnings once students were shown (or taught themselves) how to change colours they invariably did ‹ a lot. Now, I just accept it, I still give the warnings, but I recognise that for the primary school child learning how to write, and learning about what sorts of things words and pencils are, colour is an important and meaningful element. Now it might not yet be the same for these students in hypertext, but a relevant question for hypertext theory and practice is certainly what it might mean to take literally the metaphor implicit in a phrase such as "a colourful piece of writing." Much the same appears to happen in their use of video and sound.
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