Web Media Design Ex. 1

http://www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/
Overall design and colors are appealing to the eye. Its organization is clear and concise. It is easy to navigate through and to find any needed information. Each animation to view has three ways to download so that it is easier for more people to view.

http://www.coca-colablak.com/index.jsp

Index page starts out with a neat graphic animation making it look like the bubbles of coca-cola are fireworks. When the curser goes over a button there are little animated arrows that point to what you are picking. The voice over and colors fit the product.

http://www.true-studios.com/patterson/

This is a website of a past friend of mine who is in Media Studies at CCAD. I really enjoy the intro to this website. I think that it reflects his character and work well. There are a lot of interesting things that happen when you go to choose a category, like the picture changes, and the text of the title of that category drops down and appears. It is also easy to navigate.

1. What did Tim Berners-Lee think the internet would be used for?

It was his dream that the internet would be used as an “interactive sea of shared knowledge.”

2. Who were the first users of the web?

“Physicists and engineers at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland” were the first users because they are considered to have used a “home-brew” hypertext that inspired the World Wide Web.

3. What is the role of w3.org?

The role of w3.org is to make sure that all people creating and using things on the web are doing so according to the rules and protocol that has been set up.

4. What is the potential of the internet today?

Internet today still has the potential to grow larger with a lot of quality information for the whole world to share. There will be a greater availability of the web because of the number of available browsers, and new information.

5. Post three quotes you like from the article.

“Let’s think of some large numbers. The number of web documents. The number of people in the world. The number of neurons in the brain. We’re thinking of lots of things all connected together.

“”We know that people’s behaviour is something specially different form the machinations of the computer, or the interactions of identical nameless particles.”

“We are little like physicists tweaking the gas laws, and hoping that tomorrow the atmosphere won’t accidentally condense into a small blob.”