Tuesday, October 12, 2010

War of the Worlds... Run and Hide!

Splash Page

This is the website for the 2005 movie of War of the Worlds.  I found this website in the HOW March/April 2006 issue.  I loved this movie (but have yet to see the 1953 version) and I love the website!  What made this very inspirational are the use of the images for the background and the interactivity between everything.  In the splash page, the links on the side are grayed out until you hover over them, where they then turn white (which was one disadvantage for the website).

Inside Page

When you get into the inside pages, it's very cool how they have the selection in the navigation menu highlighted while graying the other options out so that you can still go to them later.  Also, usually putting text on top of images wouldn't work.  I think in this case, it definitely works!  The only disadvantage again is if you browse through some of the pages, the title doesn't show since some of the pictures are very bright.  Then again, that's why they have two ways to give the user a way to see what page they're on.

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