Re: FLASH: SFMOMA's website presents five new Web-based works

[Ken Lanxner]

On 1/1/01 at 3:46 AM, Laura Hamilton <

mslauraviviente [dot] com

> wrote:


> Check out this snazzy new Flash exhibit from the San Francisco Museum

> of Modern Art.....

> 

> We were talking about appropriate use of experimental navigation

> before, this is a great example!

> 

> http://010101.sfmoma.org/relaunch.html


I did not like this site at all. Interesting concepts but it needs a lot

more work. The first thing that struck me were those three ugly black

boxes at the bottom of the screen with lengthy, detailed instructions on

how to use the site. If it takes a tutorial to work the site, then there

is a big problem with the navigation experiment. 


I also noticed lots of distracting flash problems: masks too small for

the content so parts of words are cut off; tiny pieces of graphic

clutter left on the screen; that explanatory text in a strip down the

middle of the screen with no margin making it difficult to read; three

sets of navigation instructions at the bottom of the screen but you

can't move from one to the next without collapsing the boxes and then

re-opening them; the large 3D-ish site titles don't always go away when

you open a new one; the main navigation menu collapses part way but is

still functional -- at least the right side of it that is exposed. . . . 


There is more, but . . .  One last thing. The site won't load in Mac IE

5. The page just goes into an infinite refresh loop. Needless to say,

I'm disappointed. I expected better from the SF Museum of Modern Art.


Happy New Year to you, too, Laura and to all of you. :-)


Ken


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