So, the Paines Park Site has been up for (I believe) about 2 weeks. If you are a regular visitor of haveboard.com, you are probably familiar with my dislike for flash websites. Nick Orso, who is on the Franklins Paine Board asked me for my comments, and he forwarded them on to Red Tettemer, who have been gracious enough to donate their services to continue to push for thsi park to get made. It is happening, and I thank all those involved.
I won’t go into detail about the all things I don’t like about the site(maybe a few), and focus on more of the positives. They pulled off the full screen video background, rather nicely. There are some great video interviews with Josh Nims and Stevie Williams, regarding the project. You can sign up to a newsletter, and even download the video to use as a screen saver (not sure if it is mac friendly).
Beware of the following: From the landing page, you are sent to a new window, which forces your browser window to resize to full screen. Auto playing Music Player you have to stop whenever you navigate back to the main page. No option to stop, or turn down volume of the video clips.
It’s the first time I’ve seen a web site become such a piece of art — just like the park.
Unlike Haveboard I generally love Flash sites. I understand many of his dislikes towards them and I don’t care to get into that battle for the millionth time. The new site is pretty nice with a few annoyances like HB pointed out. The thing that annoyed me most though was the pretty much blatant rip off of Group94s work. Group94 is a design studio based out of Belgium that is extremely well know throughout the world for their modern and simplistic flash sites. The Paines Park site looked like some sort of hybrid of a bunch of G94 sites but without the simplicity. Oh well. I still like it, just wanted to point that out thought I doubt anyone here really cares.
How about that…it does look like they looked to g94 for inspiration. Interesting! G94’s work is pretty fancy…I dig, thanks for the tip. The Paine’s Project site is nice too, there are little things but its great to see a project like Paines have a great presence on the web!