The website’s aim is to recreate the labyrinth illusion of the Borgesian text, by making use of the aforementioned characteristics of hyperfiction. This is achieved by not facilitating navigation. The webpages do not carry any navigational buttons or links except from a link that leads back to the home page (index.htm) and the various linked phrases.

The Borges novel has been divided into thematic paragraphs, lexias according to Landow (1997). This division is subjective and it is not base on semantic unity or cohesion. The lexias are connected between them with links. The words and phrases that have been specified as links represent the intratextual references of the text. Again on a subjective judgement passages of the story, lexias, are linked to certain words that seem to relate and refer to. The reader-browser clicks on the links to follow a lead and the next passage appears with more links to follow.

As in a labyrinth the paths might lead nowhere, to a dead end, or repetitive circles. A webpage might appear again and again or the browser might not be able to see all of the webpages. The objective is for the user to create his own order of the novel, to practice non-sequentiality. He might even begin with the story’s ending. However there is one trail consisting of one link in every page that leads through the passages in their original print sequence. As in every labyrinth the user has to find the first passage of the linear order (which is not so difficult) and each time choose the ‘correct’ linked word or phrase.

The story of the Garden is supposedly narrated by the hero. The narrator of the first paragraph of the fiction is Borges himself introducing this supposed diary. This excerpt, external to the main story, is separated from the rest of the text and serves as the introduction to the site. The final sentence states that the two first pages of the diary are missing. Therefore it is an appropriate introduction to any of the following paragraphs –webpages because it prepares the reader for an incomplete, headless text.

The text is presented as a GIF image. The image has been divided into areas linked to every webpage of the site. Therefore the reader has the opportunity to return to this page if he wants to see all the webpages. However his choice of paragraphs is random. There is no indication of the original sequence or the name of the HTML document. Also present in the index.htm is a link to a commentary on the site explaining its purpose and functions.