My final blog submittal is about a web site for San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art, or SFMOMA for short. This is a site sponsored by the museum that has been designed by Intel. It explores multimedia art and the internet.
The site is visually very attractive, with lots of wonderful flash effects. There are many links, and you could spend a lot of time exploring all of the possibilities. My computer is a little "sick" and I need to take it to the computer doctor, so not all of it worked for me. But the basic site worked just fine, and the flash effects were well done, so I thought it deserved a place in our class blog.
The site gives many hints on navigation. Among some of the many flash effects, the main button has random, small, flashing red squares moving around it. After a couple of minutes a few of them begin to "pop" and become black. It is an invitation to roll over them. They each open a window to a quote from a famous personality - just a little diversion if you care to try it. This main button can be dragged around the site. (It tells you how to do it.) There are no scroll bars - you just position your mouse either near the top or near the bottom of columns. Rows of patterns will slide and enlarge as you mouse over them - then text will appear from the rows and expand into links. There are nine links that pop out as you roll over the main mouse button. All of this text looks extruded. The type in the columns is nice and large. Karl might have a bone to pick with how they present the column type as there are no margins, but I liked the way it looked. Polly
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