Web Design Ideas

NYE 09

I’ve begun to give some thought to my website, or more specifically the way it will look. Googling “cool websites” didn’t really give me any kind of a start on this. So I hit up the class blog page and did some cheating by checking out what sites previous students found interesting. I stumbled across one that was unlike any type of site I’d seen previously. It appeared to be one giant picture, heavily photoshoped and full of bright colours that just popped. Even more interesting was that when you moved your mouse you could actually move around the picture, which was bigger than first appeared. I didn’t gain any kind of information from this site, but I think it’s a great idea and visually stunning when you consider what else the web has to offer. http://www.thebumblebeez.com/old.html

A bit of research into some artist and I discovered a type of work that could be integrated brilliantly with this web idea. The artists name is Peter Murphy, an Australian photographer who specialises in 360 degree and 3-dimensional photography. My particular interest is his 360 degree works. I’d describe his photos as revolutionary (pun intended) because 360 degrees doesn’t really do them just. They are indeed a full revolution, not just many shots stitched into a wide panorama but a full view of everything left, right, up, down. It’s hard to explain so it’s best to see yourself;

http://www.mediavr.com/nye09.htm , http://www.mediavr.com/blog/

The biggest problem with photographs is that viewing them is never as good as being there and experiencing things in real life. I’m not saying by any means Peter Murphy’s NYE 09 is the same as being there, but it’s probably the closest thing on offer.

So my idea; well, it’s a web page that you navigate by moving your mouse around a 360 degree room. A spherical layout may present a problem but making it square should solve this and enable text, pictures, links and video to be placed on the walls of a room without their dimensions being distorted.