I've always been a big fan of Tim Burton, so I thought I'd give a shout out to his art gallery website, http://timburton.com/. It has a fun and unique way of navigating through the site. It uses flash animation to allow the user to move a character around the site instead of the cursor. With a touch of the arrow keys, the character (Stain Boy from one of Burton's poems) moves right, left, back, and forward through a home interior. Other pages of the site are accessed by walking through doors. It's really quite fun, like playing a video game. It works particularly well for an art gallery site, because the character walks down a hall of hanging artworks that you can walk up closer to see, much like art galleries in real life. Also, the loading screen is very interesting in this site. While you wait for the site to load, it shows the numbers 1 through 10 designed and drawn by Burton himself. It is actually entertaining, unlike most loading screens. I like this idea a lot. It's usually pretty boring waiting for things to load on the web. Why not make the loading screen entertaining? My only complaints about the site would be that sometimes the flash stops working and the character get stuck, and I don't like that the site takes you to an advertisement before you actually go to the real site.
But, overall its is a fun website with some
very clever ideas.
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