R. Paul Villaluz
DAI527.1 Digital Media III: WEB Design- Spring 2006
rpaulv_sfsu@yahoo.com
Interesting Links
The Documentaries section of the CBC TV website has a great color scheme and nice layout, all working harmoniously to create a beautiful web page. It's easy to navigate through and you can find the information that you need easily.
The site also has a section called "Interactive Features," which replays some of their specials as Flash movies.
The Design Museum is based in London, and the main page allows the user to view the site either through Flash (Full Content) or HTML (Reduced Content). Each selection opens a smaller window (520 x 490 pixels). The site designers managed to contain all the contents within this smaller window, with full navigational functions and interactive menus.
The International Olympic Committee
Olympic fans, both winter and summer can receive information about the Olympic Movement, athlete bios (medal winners), host city info, photo galleries, video selections, and other facts and statistics.
It's fairly easy to navigate through the site and features some nice design elements like all the logos of past Olympic host cities and campaigns.
My favorite aspect of this site is the "hiding" navigation tool at the top of the page, so it's there only if you need it, allowing for a full view of the images and for reading articles. Everytime one visits the site, a new background photo of the artist appears, and a rotating music playlist features her songs, which adds to the "interactive" experience.
A good resource for a lot of Ernesto "Che" Guevara text (articles, biographies, essays, speeches, letters ideologies and theories), images, video, audio and exploitative merchandise (aaack!). It's a good "basic" no-frills site that gives a good information on Che and includes links to forums and communities.
