I am very impressed with the opening page, which really sets
the mood for the rest of the site. One thing however--because
the image is so large, I have to view the site page on a big
monitor and open the window up wide or the image lies overtop
of the page. It took me a sec to figure out how to see the text
beneath the image.
Beautiful images throughout and I dig the spooky text on the
black background. I was only a tad disappointed with the
image-maps--I thought they would lead me to more options <but
perhaps they will in the future?).
This seems to have changed a ton from what your project used to
be <am I completely nuts or where you the guys doing to the
project on the history of popular culture merchandise, such as
the etch-a-sketch?>
I am edified psychically by the message: "All of these stories
are based upon real encounters with the otherworldly." Nice
touch.
You might want to have a little something or other at the
bottom of the page as another way out besides the images.
Again, it took me a second to realize how the heck to get out
of some of these spooky places.
Towards the ends, some of the page layouts seem a little
repetitive, perhaps you don't need so many different pages with
the same image, perhaps you could fit all those words onto one
page and have the reader scroll down and find the same image on
that one page?
I like the mix between factual information of the locations and
the story line. I thought that I could tell them apart at first
because the factual info was written in italics but then
towards the end the story begins to be written in italics as
well. Did you want for this conflation to happen? Is it
meaningful to the rest of the project?
Anyway, I enjoyed being in this very ghostly atmosphere. Again,
beautifully imaginative and well-realized layouts.
--Barb