I found this website http://www.testemale-photos.com/. It’s like a photo gallery and you can click on images to enlarge them. I think the overall layout is really nicely done. The colors used are not too bright and give a warm feeling. They’re pretty consistent throughout the whole website. The pictures are all organized based on categories and are randomly placed on different locations. It actually took me some time to figure out how to use and navigate across the picture slideshow. Sometimes picture’s navigation bar gets hidden under the bottom panel when their height is longer than the screen/browser window’s height. The bottom panel shows different categories of the pictures. I would say this website is very interactive because you need to click on something to go to different pages or enlarge the pictures. In the beginning of each page, lots of photos icons appear randomly at different places. After all the pictures get into place you can choose and click on a specific one. That mini icon will then enlarge and move to the center of the page, and in the mean time, the background fades into a darker color. This brings focus to only the image at the center. On the bottom of the image you can control and click on to the next or previous images. When you click on to the next category, the screen quickly shifts across the background onto another section. I really like this technique because my eyes actually followed the movement of the background and I can feel that the setting has changed. It’s interesting because I can easily picture the whole thing being together as one large image with pieces and bits scattered across different parts. Each of those parts is individually zoomed in as different categories. So even though all the images seem to be separated, they are in fact still connected to one another on the same background.

I think in my slide show I have something similar to the fading effect used in this site. I would like to try that moving and shifting across the background technique in a future project since my layout this time doesn’t really work well with it.