Jason Mraz

http://www.jasonmraz.com/

So this website has some pretty entertaining features to it. Make sure you listen to it with sound on because almost all the pages have a voice over recording of Jason Mraz and its funny stuff. I also like that this website is drawn out and that you have the option of silencing his voice.

florida scarf

FLORIDA SCARF

This is one of my friends sisters companies, florida scarf. She hand-makes these really neat scarfs and I really enjoy the scarfs as well as her website! It is very original and fun. It scrolls from right to left instead of up and down which I have rarely seen in websites. It is colorful and I like how the pictures keep changing, you don't need to click on them to see them. The websites photos are very clear and good quality, and the sketches look hand-made as well. I think its a simple and innovative website.

THE DOLLS

the New York Dolls
This website is documenting a band called the New York Dolls. Its a very basic and straight to the point website. I believe for the band it it suiting. Navigation on this site is easy.

BOARD BARN

First Stop Board Barn
This website is for a snowboard shop I work in. Its a fairly new website and it seems easy to use and navigate. I haven't noticed any flaws or inconveniences so if you see any point them out to me please.

art pad

so i found this website, and i thought it was pretty cool. not only is it interactive, but it allows you to browse through what other people have done in the gallery. the setup of the page is simple and easy to navigate. it does not have a lot of clutter or crazy colors that hurt your eyes. have fun!

http://artpad.art.com/gallery/

Chelsea St. Louis

http://hellejorgensen.typepad.com/gooseflesh/2007/06/spawning_coral.html
I love this site, both the work and navigational style/set up. The thumnail "lables for each area of the site leave no question as to what you will be moving away from a page to view.

Online Guitar Tuner

http://www.tunemybass.com/

This site is a great way to tune your guitar if you don't already have your own tuner. You can access it anywhere there is internet. This has helped me many times before when I have been without my tuner and I recommend others using it.

SHAKE JUNT
This site is a very basic but effective layout for a website it involves a certain style of skate culture that appeals to some people and gets the skate footage that people are looking for. There isn't really a problem navigating because it simply is just a scrolling options with older post and links. For these guys it seems very effective because many people visit this site.

WEBSITE WARNING

THE BERRICS

I really enjoy this site because of the content and graphic design layout. The only problem with this site is sometimes its hard to find the actual skateboard footage. Its not necessarily a navigation problem rather too many post that are not skateboarding.

Stephen Proctor Ceramics

http://www.stephenprocter.com/

i chose to look for a website which delt specificly with my medium of ceramics. there was a vermont potter whom i acquired a free kin from over the summer. i hadn't gotten the chance to explore his website untill recently, but was impressed with the simplicity and streamline appearance of his website. other websites i found lacked this and seemed to be a little haphazard and thrown together with little thought concerning colors and image placement.

http://www.alicenharrison.com/index.php

I found this website by searching in google for "abstract art website". I added abstract to hone in on a specific type of art. After a bit of linking, I came to Alicen Harrison's website. Her main screen has a nice welcome picture and colors that are easy on the eyes. Click on the Gallery link and it will take you to some of her work, these are in categories and you can click them to view art pieces of similar theme or time frame. Honestly the webpage is not flashy, but I think that's a good thing, I prefer simple and fast to good looking and flashy.

heres a few websites i reccomend checkin out if you got a few minutes.
http://www.mr-ewokone.com/
http://www.12ozprophet.com/
http://volcomartloft.blogspot.com/

http://humonphotography.com/albums/body-modification/
I really like the simplicity of this site. Navagation is straight forward and consistant, and I really like how the link opens up to a frame by fame image that you simply click on the image in the same spot to advance images.

http://www.stevehaworth.com/wordpress/index.php/steve-haworth-portfolio/branding-images
This site is well organized and has a background that accents his work and mission well. Interesting content, my only negative response would be that his other galleries are father down the page, forcing you to look for them longer than I think is really necessary.
http://jasonchristopher.com/photography/fashion/2
Fantastic photos, clean, organized. Good display for his type of work, not so much of a fan of the manner in which is photos are displayed...
http://emmahackartist.com/nativemandalas.php
great organization. I really like how if you scroll over the thumbnails it shows a bigger version of that piece. The use of fading was a good touch.

first look at websites

http://www.neilgaiman.com/

While Neil Gaiman is not a visual artist, he is one of the best (and most bizarre) graphic novel and sci-fi writers in the world. His books are notorious for other worldly imagery and thought processes (death, distruction, virtual dream states, etc). I like how his website looks the way his stories are written. It is also very easy to navigate. While he is an adult author, he also writes children's books and has included a website specifically designed for kids in the section called mousecircus.

http://www.juliananeufeld.com/

Juliana Neufeld is a relatively new illustrator. She does interesting work incorporating mixed media, photography and watercolor illustrations. Her website is very indicitive of her work and gives you a feel for her style as soon as you open the page. While it's a little slow, it is very easy to navagate and you are able to access a lot of information from on site journal to client list to portfolio.

Alex Grey

This website is very simple, but I like how the menu bar stays on the left hand side at all times. When your looking at his art there is a pyramid button on the bottom of most pages (when you put your cursor over it an eye appears in the pyramid, which is basically his logo) that allows you to go back to the site if it navigates away because the paintings/drawings are too big for that particular web page. I like the black background because he uses a lot of color for you to see and I think it has good contrast to it. Alex Grey is an amazing artist and I think that his web page could be a little bit more in depth but for a simple website I like it.
http://www.alexgrey.com/

Jackson pollock

www.jacksonpollock.org This is a really neat site, I wouldnt make mine like it but it was a lot of fun! And it has won some cool awards! Its all about making art!
www.jacksonpollock.com This site is more about the artist, and his work...I like the colorful square buttons for navigation.

found another really cool site!! natashawescoat.com
The background resembels patterns used in her work. And navigationally it was easy to know where you were and how to get back and forth from one page to another.

Band Website

http://www.switchfoot.com/switchfoot/index.php



This is the website of my favorite band, Switchfoot. Not only do I love their music, but their site is nicely organized and really portrays the mood of the band. It is easy to navigate through the links within the website. There is a main menu displayed across the top, like a frame of it's own, on each page that the links take you to. On the homepage is a flash slide show of their band pictures and a link to learn how you can help out with Haiti. The overal theme of the site has a natural, raw feel to it, which is also present in their style of music. I think it is a good portrayal of the band's persona in addition to being a well developed website.

http://www.eganglass.com/

I liked the genral lay out of the of the web page found that it was nicely layed out and ezzy to navigat

illusions

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_snakeAdLib/index.html



so i stumbled upon this website and ended up spending a long time looking at it. i just wanted to share the fun.