Websites

One website that I really like is the Exhibition Monet 2010. I thought this website was very pleasing to the eye (the reason why it is nominated for a Webby). I love the homepage because it is so organized and easy to navigate. I also really enjoy the transitional effects and motion graphics used to move from page to page. It is extremely easy to navigate through the gallery of paintings, the captions sit nicely below, and the background does not detract the viewer from the painting, yet is artistic in its own way. They have hyperlinks set up so that you can share the information on facebook or twitter and they are easy to find. There is music playing in the background, but you can always shut that off. The journey portion of the site is interactive so that you can go through Monet's journey yourself. Overall, this site was very innovative and creative.

One website that was really bad was the Yale University School of Art. The first problem was the picture in the background. Who is that?! And why can't we see their face? There is text with a background in front of her face. The colors of the text backgrounds don't match and shouldn't be part of the color palette. The navigation is really easy, but it leads to worse looking pages unfortunately, especially the everything else page. The background is completely distracting. The Visiting page has a motion graphic background and switches from one set of country flags to another. I had difficulty reading the text because the background blended with the text background. Everything about this website is wrong and so distracting that you don't even want to try looking through the galleries and reading about what one of the best universities in the U.S. has to offer in art.