Truthaboutbooze.com is a site about the effects of alcohol abuse amongst college students. I think it’s a very user friendly site for college students. Colors are bold and striking, making it more likely that the target audience will look at the site longer. Images are of young adults who are sharing their stories of alcohol abuse. Interactions are simple and asthetically pleasing to the eye.

I find this site incredibly different from a site that is selling something because I find a site that is selling something to be very complex and slightly complicated. Informative sites are rather simple, with simple animations, pictures, and colors. For example, last week someone posted the Snapple site – Snapple created that site in the mindset of selling the brand of Snapple in the form of a very complicated (yet fun) flash design site. In truthaboutbooze.com – a more serious matter than Snapple, uses a more serious tone yet appealing to it’s target which is college students.

In today’s world sitting down in front of a television four hours while munching on food is not an ideal way to spend ones time. This website teaches you a new way of viewing television — on the web! Joost has a database of many mainstream television shows, but what I appreciate more is their vast collection of rare and informative documentaries, that range from the land of Egpy to the history of Jazz music.

The website uses flash technology to creatively make use of the browser space, since it isn’t really like viewing a television screen. I like that there is freedom in watching Joost, because you can pause and continue to finish that hard project due @ computer animation class this week, while catching up on that episode of the Real Housewives (not).

I encourage you guys to check out the site, and learn how you can experience TV in another format.

Think Green is a waste management website that teaches about recycling and what can we do to help protect our environment. It make me want to learn more about recycling and how effective it is when each and one of us participate in it. The flash animation was guiding me each step of the way by using sound as the background environment with a tour guide who spoke along as I am reading the facts. The gray stage color was used perfectly. I like how they use the light effect shining on the pear. The pear also changes every time you click on the new facts to show the process of decomposing the pear.

The educational animation actually have many facts to support what they said as I mention before that they used tour guide to teach and guide you along with graphic image and movie clip in the animation. You can also learn about the positive and negative side of the topic. In which, it is different from selling animation because they will probably just show the best of what their product will offer you. For example, in the Pepsi’s website, the company will design movie clip for specific group of consumer who will purchase their product.

Most of all, I think this is a great website to learn about the environment. Especially, this is a place we are all living on.

Once again I come to you with another site of Japanese origins, except this time you have the option of seeing it in english. The flash starts once choose either english or Japanese as your language, and frankly this site is quite beautiful. The purpose of Forests Forever is to spread awareness of the forests located aorund world by providing information. According to FujiFilm the creator of the site their goal is to “create an occasion and an opportunity and a stage for people around the world who share an abiding interest in forests to exchange thoughts and nurture their dreams, together forming a vibrant image of forests for the future.” Through the use of beautiful animation the site allows the user to study the history of the planet as well as other topics that relate to the planet.

This website is flash based and teaches you how to do cartoons with adobe programs but mainly flash. This site caught my eye and has very nice animations. It was very easy to navigate through and if you didnt have to pay for the tutorials they would be a good way to learn more about flash. Even though the site lacked sounds, the links to different tutorials have a slight movement when you hover over the links. Some parts of the website have little animations that loop. I believe that this website has a simple look to it but has more than meets the eye.

This website teaches about various subjects ranging from science, math, art and music, to technology. The layout is very simple and easy to follow. As I clicked on the site, my attention was directed right away to the center of the page, the big box filled with many different small rectangles. The color used is very bright and eye catching. Green is the main color theme of the homepage but as you click onto different subjects the color of the whole page changes. Since this website is intended to educate children, the images used are fun to look at and the messages or the information provided are very consistent and easy to understand. I think having simple visuals attached to the ideas and information is a good way to really help students remember about the facts explained.

This website is also very interactive. Students can click on the subject they want to learn more about and once they select a subject, a list of sub categories will allow students to further explore the website and understand about the topics covered. One thing I found the website should do more is to have sounds or music accompanying different pages. It became a little boring when I was browsing though the website with no background music or any kind of sound effects. I think the website would be more engaging if some sound effects are added.

This website is very different from the past commercial websites I saw. The images used are different, and the way things are laid out are also different. In this educational site, the goal is probably to provide information to users where as when compared with commercial websites companies are always promoting for their products.