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Monday, March 17, 2008
Website Layout
After so many different thoughts, doing and redoing, thinking and rethinking...my layout is finally born! Behold, world...I giveth thee, the summerlounge main page!!


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OK, so it's not that big a deal...but at least I've got something solid to proceed on. Also just bought a really nice set of bar equipments. It's not exactly cheap but a bargain for the amount of items I'm getting. It's the full monty...(actually minus the stirrer and glassware) but nevertheless, all your base are belong to us!! *Hint: if you do not know what the phrase meant, be sure to google it up and try gaming for a change.*

Cheers,
Chris.

posted by Red @ 12:59 PM   1 comments
Sunday, March 16, 2008
La Blogotheque
This is a random post about something I love and I'd like to share it. This site is a French blogsite called 'La Blogotheque' and is the brainchild of Vincent Moon. If you don't know who Vincent Moon is well, to be honest I'm not too sure myself but what he came up with in a blog is ingenious. This blog is about him as a video/production director shooting bands (indie and well known) in the most bizarre and interesting places one can think of. It is what he calls 'A Take Away Show'. Bands play live wherever they are placed and Mr Moon, shoots it on set as the band is performing as well. The location ranges from live street performances to wine cellars and even rooftops. These videos are a few of my favourites. Locations are odd but I love it so do enjoy it.







Cheer,
Chris.
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Navigation Analysis
First off, this is such a belated post. Don't mean to screw up but I guess life goes on for the rest of us who are under-inspired. I'm going to analyse a two of my favourite sites. First one is a production company called Nexus Productions.


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I love the loading page. It's a small animation of different coloured bars moving up and down, which reminds me of Guitar Hero that we get in game centers where we have to follow the colours and beat of the music.


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It's simple and interesting really. Minimalism with a touch of colour. I don't know why but I seem happy to visit this site again and again just to watch the loading process.Call me nuts if you must. This is how the main page looks like once the loading process is over and done with. The navigation is simple and straight forward. The different coloured bold lines make up the navigation bar, just by a hovering of your mouse cursor will result in the types bouncing about(did I mention I was happy to visit this site?) The first thing we see are the rollcall of directors that work for the production company.I have taken a screenshot of how the individual directors portfolio site looks like.


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Users can of course browse through the works of all the directors and many of the works are brilliant! The page being displayed at the bottom is under the 'who we are' option. The brilliant part of this page is how the the two horizontal line in green will scroll left/right according to how one's mouse cursor moves. A slight contrast to how the rest of the site's navigation and transition has been mostly vertical, the horizontal scrolling provides a tiny surprise.


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It's a joy to visit this site, plus I love a lot of the works posted on directors portfolio's. It's really simple and creative, am now tempted to paint my room in different muted colours.

The second site I'm going to review about is the website of one of my favourite bands. You might have seen the previous grd system review I did on this band, it is none other than Arcade Fire.


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This is the starting page that allows the user to navigate to numerous other sites that are associated with the band including fansites, merchandise and ticket sales. You would also notice that the Neon Bible website is also listed in it as it was probably more popular that the band website.


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This is what the user sees after having clicked at the band site option. It's interesting form of navigation as the world rotates at the click of a name listed or even the left and right buttons. The user's mouse cursor plays an important role as many of the interactions require mouse activity including click,drag and even hovering movements. On the lower portion of the site is an icon with a title of each individual band member's own little blog/page. Not only are the icons different but the interaction area also rotates and changes according to the user's choice.Navigation is simple although it does take a little bit of time to locate certain buttons, it's fairly easy to navigate around.


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The art direction for this site is brilliant. It blends the ornamental design with the typeface really well. Although at first glance the site looks a little dull, with the amount of interactions waiting to be discovered, it balances the site well.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
new idea
I've been thinking about it for some time. I got a new idea built from a similar concept (after all the feedback I got from Jo and SK), to hell with vector. Too much work, too little time. So here is what I'm proposing. Index.html will start of with the front of the house, welcome/intro and the floor plan as main navigation button. As users click on where they aim to go the tabs will bring them to a different section of the house, thus exploring the place as if one was really attending a summer party. I figured it would fit in well with the concept of a DIY guide to home summer parties. Where am I going to get these crazy pics? LOL I came across this luxury mansion up for rent in Kona, Hawaii. It's like everyone's dream beach house with all high res pics of every square inch of the house and pool. Don't know how else to explain it but have sketches and all the pics with the website as well. This really is a wicked mansion...I don't want to live there for good but I certainly would like to stay a week or two. :)

Here's the link:- http://www.lakohouse.com/highe.html

Cheers.
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