The purpose of this page is to provide a searchable electronic edition of The Political House that Jack Built by William Home. It was created in January 1998 by Kyle Grime of the University of Alabama. The introduction shows that this was a very popular text in its time. This text comes from the forty-fourth edition of the work most likely printed in 1820. It provides us with both facsimile of the original print and a searchable electronic transcription. There are plenty of images, mostly about 70 KB each. They load quickly, however some lack in quality. It features simple navigation which allows you to move efficiently from the transcript to the pictures. The archive is divided into several different files, Font Matter, Text File, and Clerical Magistrate. The encoding of the site is basic html. The search engine is useful in searching the entire work or other editions published electronically at Romantic Circles. -- Tawonga Lupwayi and Maciek Maryl

I looked at the Lyrical Ballads page. The site has very easy navigation, the viewer knows exactly where to go and where they have been. The navigation bar at the top of each page allows for easy movement through the page. The author's preface which is linked to the link bar at the top of the page provides all the background info needed to understand the purpose of the page. The site was created to show how "The Ancient Mariner ['s]" different editions have subtle differences, and give the reader/ viewer a facsimile of a text that was not available to him/her. The site allows the reader to view multiple editions of the same text on the page at the same time so that the reader can view and compare the different editions. The site contains basic html coding, except for the pages with the multiple editions which was a smaller code than the title page. -- Ravi Chahal

The purpose of this site is to "inspire a love of Shakespeare's works" by creating and publishing "fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance" (http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Foyer/about.html). The design is very easy to read, because information is broken up into many different categories. This aspect prevents a reader from becoming overwhelmed with all of the information that is presented. Also within the design of the site they present an image of the original text which you can enlarge for easier reading. Modern versions of the text are also available to be compared with the originals. The navigation of this site is also very easy, because there is a "Page Contents" box at the top right corner of the page that allows one to be transported quickly through the site without having to browse through unnecessary content for their particular search. Before the play can begin there is quite a bit of encoding which may show that the encoding is more advanced in the description of the electronic document. -- Kayla Fedor and Janelle Johnson.

The goal of MEP is to generate scholarly, quality editions from historical documents, and to make these editions widely available via the internet. There seems to be a great deal of information; however the format in which it is presented is a little bland. There are large areas in the documents list with no text or links. Site has poor navigation: some areas (eg. Lincoln Legal Papers) do not have any links to documents! Some documents are filled with links (mostly to footnotes and brief biographies), and some have very few embedded links. The footnotes include historical analysis, which could potentially be useful for further research. Some documents have no hint as to their origination, whereas others are very specific. The biggest drawback of this website is the inconsistencies of their available documents. -- TimWarwick, Jeff Housman

The Rossetti Archive was created for the scholary study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's work. The site is well designed, attractive and easy to read. The material is divided into exhibits such as pictures, poems, books, etc. Detailed digital images of all material are provided, including book spines, covers, back covers, and inside covers, etc., as well as full text transcripts. The site is easy to navigate with a simple layout as well as a powerful search engine. Numerous internal hyperlinks provide more information on the context of certain words. The archive also uses a modern XML encoding with XML source available for each page, although the DTD could not be located. Also of note is the archive’s Creative Commons license which allows sharing and modification of the material. --Alex Rossol, Eric Wasylishen

The purpose of the archive is for etexts and pictures about William Blake's work; background information of William Blake; links to related pictures. The design has Changing pictures that have different pages is annoying in navigation. Otherwise, good layout with the frames. The main page has all the necessary links and their descriptions. The hyperlinks are only small discreet roman numeral buttons that are the same color as the background and text so they do not distract you while you are reading. The links are plentiful, and provide brief, good information. Excellent pictures with zoom functions and hypertexted information about each image. Navigation: the picture changes every time you load a page. This makes it unnecessarily difficult to know where you are in the site. An excellent tour. However, it should be presented higher on the main index page, instead of on a link further down the page because it is a good starting point. The "how to use the William Blake Archive" page is ironically long, detailed, and confusing and there is no link back to the index. As for encoding principles the only noticeable encoding apostrophes are encoded by #8217. Other, than this the code seems very clean and easy to follow. -- Rob Lesniak, Albert Woo

A frames-based presentation of Coleridge's poem "Frost at Midnight," aimed at the students of Romantic literature making a close study of this single poem. It provides a reading version, plus several optional frames for further study: the context of the poem and the version that was first published, an outline of stylistic and structural analysis, comments extracted from critical writings on the poem, and a guide to a psychological approach to the poem based on Freud and Bowlby. The design enables the poem to remain visible in the left-hand frame, while pointers to or from the right-hand frame keep the discussion materials in synchrony with the passage being considered. The encoding of the site is basic html. -- David S. Miall

Though the sitel provides a full (and thoroughly hypertexted) e-text of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, it is perhaps best suited for use as a reference text: splashes of blue links across the page result, unfortunately, in a text decidedly too hard on the eyes to consider as a primary text for comfortable reading. Further, clicking a hypertext link loads a new page of references instead of keeping a window of the text being read, which can prove distracting. However, useful indexes (including character lists, event lists, random comments, motifs concerning pride and prejudice, and important places) provide links which jump to relevant passages within the text, making this an invaluable tool for reference. -- Kevin Owen, Anthea Lam

This frames-based edition of Beowulf is exhaustive, covering not only the full text of the poem both in Old English and in Modern English, but also summaries, character lists, history, and even a quiz. Its purpose is obviously educational, and although it may benefit from more direct links and references to specific parts of the text and characters, it is nonetheless easy to navigate from the tried-and-true left frame. The chapters of the Old English version are accompanied by a short summary in the margins, rather than a link to the Modern English version. The HTML encoding is straightforward, and endeavours to replicate the poem exactly as it appears in print, even going so far as to code the caesura as a series of spaces rather than using a large table to separate the poem vertically, which would have been much easier. -- Cat McDonald and Jon Berry

“Beowulf in Hypertext” presents the text of Beowulf in both Old English and Modern English editions. The main purpose of this site seems to be to introduce first time students of Beowulf to the text and the context surrounding it. Navigation of the text is frame based, with contents of the two versions of the text appearing in the left-hand frame and the text itself appearing in the right. Supplementary materials (history, character descriptions, and other contextual material) are presented in the same format. In keeping with the pedagogical focus of the site, lots of links are provided to related material on the web, although several links are dead. Basic HTML coding is used to structure the text and website. -- Daniel Johnson and Amber Medynski

The Perseus Digital Library exposes a wide range of materials to a large audience. There are various media formats accessible on this page, from maps, photos, and text, to translations of pieces. Primary and secondary sources are used, secondary usually in translations of the classical works. There are transcripts of statistical data, for example, statistics on Michigan towns, as well as autobiographies of figures both past and present. The site is interdisciplinary, that is, it discusses not only arts but sciences as well, but largely centered on the Western world, that is, American and European.
The site code seems fairly complex, leading us to believe that it is mainly for presentation purposes, and perhaps they use some sort of medium such as Dreamweaver, as the code seems horribly difficult to edit. The design of the page is visually simple, and easy to navigate. The color scheme is easy on the eyes, not blinding, and it is very consistent. The layout promotes the ease of navigation, as the menus stay intact as you navigate throughout the site. There is introductory information and navigation constantly available.
In detail, the navigation includes a search function that is effective; however, the site as a whole should categorize their search results and content since it is so interdisciplinary. The individual works are organized well; most plays are organized within their respective act. However, with concordance this can be a problem, as you would prefer the entire text on one page. -- Anthony You