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Working the Web in New York's Silicon AlleyDheeraj K. Vasishta, Site Builder and A/V Editor at AGENCY.COM, New York
Speaking in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Wednesday, October 28, 1998
Here are links to the sites I showcased today, as well as several others that I didn't have time to get to. They're all rather nice.What's catching our eyes nowadays at AGENCY.COM?
I floated this question via e-mail to our creative staff at work, and they offered up a few URLs that showcase some of the Web's potential very nicely. Here are a few sites to check out -- but first, be sure your browser is version 4.0 or above, and that you've got Macromedia's Flash plug-in. Or, just get Netscape Communicator 4.5, and you'll automatically have everything you need. Soon, you too can be staring in awe at these websites and banging your head against the wall, wondering if you can ever learn to do everything that the people who made these sites can -- the way I did when I first saw them.
DHTML SitesAtlas Magazine
An interesting little web zine developed by a San Francisco web design house. The gateway showcases some nice DHTML, but it's the site map that really impresses.The HTML Guru
This could well be the most impressive DHTML site featured here. Animation, rollovers, CSS, and advanced JavaScript are all stretched to the limit. I wish I knew how they did it.Lenny Kravitz / 5
Nice DHTML site promoting an equally nice new album. Note the pullout/retractable navigation menu.GE Corporate Website
In terms of design, there's nothing radical going on here -- in fact, some of the second- and lower-level screens look very 1996. However, the contextual menu-style navigation on the main gateway screen is a nice use of DHTML. Roll your mouse over one of the options to see the submenu pop up.Black Bean Studios
Nice DHTML site by a Boston-based web shop.What is this?
Maybe you'll have better luck than I did in figuring out what this site is, or what the point of it is (other than to show off some impressive DHTML).
Flash SitesSpyplane
A really slick Flash piece designed by a San Francisco web shop. Also, check out the Web Pages In An Hour Flash-based game.Antenna Design
A New York web shop with a nice immersive Flash interface.Volvo
Flash used for Volvo advertising. Notice how Flash gives the Web the potential of television advertising.Honkworm
Here's how Macromedia described it when they picked it as their Shocked Site of the Day: "Who was the boniest fish in the Disco days? What do dead fish talk about when sitting at a bar together? Find out the answers to these important issues and laugh your butt off watching some very amusing animated short Flash movies."NRG design!
One of my favorite Flash sites of all. It's the corporate web site for a Belgium-based web design firm. Beautifully designed, with nicely selected sound effects to boot.Lundsrom & Associates Architects
There probably isn't another architecture firm that has a website that even approaches this one.Pump House
Funny how design firms seem to have the best sites. This one is beautiful -- it's for a UK company that does a little of everything: Convention exhibition design, computer graphics, and more.Ink&co.
Still another design firm site using Flash.Freshtea Design
The Flash-based website for an Irish web designer/VRML programmer. Very impressive.the remedi project?
Nice -- very nice. This is a sort of virtual playground for digital communications artists. Lots of interesting, experimental stuff here, more than I could really delve into at about eight hours before my presentation today.Homewrecker
So, who are they? "A clothing line with no moral values whatsoever," according to their site. A lovely, Flash-intensive site, at that.Image Dive Extra
I don't really know who these people are, but their site has been the talk of web designers worldwide for a while now. In our office alone, the URL is sent out every so often. Nice, very nice.Gabocorp
I've heard rumors that this site belongs to some 16-year-old kid in Puerto Rico who can apparently do anything. This site would certainly suggest so. The entire site is a Flash piece that really shows off the plug-in's abilities very well. Not to mention the kid's.
For more information, visit my two-year-old, non-DHTML, non-Flash website, which actually dates back to the days when I, too, was a student here.This page was last edited on Wednesday, October 28, 1998 using BBEdit 4.5 and, in a moment of desperation, Windows 95 Notepad (hey, I had no choice on that one). By the way, as long as you're reading this, do yourself a favor: Defy the unenlightened sheep who run ATN, and buy a Power Macintosh.