NO PINK
by Christy Sheffield Sanford

In November, 1998, NO PINK, a set of simultaneous love stories about sex, death and friendship, won The Well's Contest for the Best Hyperlinked Work on the Web. NO PINK has now found a home at Salt Hill. It was first published by Oyster Boy in Issue 3.

Navigating space-time in NO PINK:

kk The viewer can move in frames many ways: clicking linked words/images, scrolling the bar, or more arduously dragging the mouse arrow through a frame or grabbing and dragging the frame itself. Control options vary across platforms. In Macintosh, press the mouse arrow down within a frame, and a menu appears allowing backward or forward movement. In Windows, use the "right-click" part of the mouse to bring up the menu.

Frame sets are conceptually exciting. You can show multiple texts, multiple worlds/an almost infinite combination of images and text. In addition, by their size, frames can provide weight to a passage, an idea or character. A final feature is the remote control aspect. One frame can be directed by another. This establishes a relationship within the set. It can be intimate or Machiavellian!

In NO PINK, I have kept scrolling to a minimum. The top banner scrolls only to the right. Often there is a link at the end. I'm trying to create a tactile page, so the viewer feels the text/image to find what's hot. Simply scrolling, you might miss something, important, like a pinup!

I wanted a dialogue within the text, between or among the frames. In addition, an intratext-dialogue is possible with client pull. A meditative climate, for example, can be established when short pieces of text and image are delivered at 20 sec. intervals. Two or more pages on the screen can interact. Patterns and text can be combined and recombined, controlled by advancing forward or backward in individual frames.

In your browser's preferences, turn off underlining. If in Netscape, deselect directory buttons under "Options." I hope you enjoy your Sojourn!

Special thanks to Windows' users who provided feedback to help make this Macintosh-designed work go across platforms: Gen Aris, Marjorie Luesebrink and Christian Crumlish.