Monday, September 14, 2009

Webby Winners

I speSee full size imagent a long time browsing the Webby award winners the other night. My favorite was definitely The Onion, a mock online magazine, which won the webby for humor: Home | The Onion - America's Finest News Source. I especially liked the "opinion" section, which has a bunch of blurbs, all ridiculous and hilarious. I definitely recommend browsing the site if you're looking for a laugh. 

I also really liked dreamgrove.org, which won the Webby for netart. The whole site is devoted to people's dreams, broken up 
into categories like "hope" and "anger", and a lot of others.
 The design of the site is really cool; each dream is represented by a colored dot on the screen, which you click to read.

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is another cool site, which won the people's choice webby for netart. The site is a blank canvas which you drag your mouse across, splattering paint over. Click the mouse to change the color. Its easy to use and extremely entertaining.

 I've never stopped to appreciate websites in such a way before, coming from a critical standpoint. I am developing an appreciation for the work that goes into developing and designing such intricate websites. 

1 comment:

  1. i agree with your comment "I am developing an appreciation for the work that goes into developing and designing such intricate websites. "
    actually, i never really think about whether a website is well designed until that "webby" thing came up. It's really fun to look at these websites in a different way. other than searching for information impatiently , i started to appreciate.

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