Sites of the Week

These are some of the sites the CP team has been looking at for inspiration:

• Great site, although the animations take a while to load. Good use of 3D flash animation:
  http://www.theflagshipexperience.com/
  
• Great use of animation and video on this site for medical marketing:
  http://www.proxonicvisuals.com/site/


• This is very cool to use your mouse's scroll wheel to zoom in on the photos. There's one stamp (middle left), that you can keep zooming in and in and in:
  http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
  
  (Note: Requires a very painful installation of the Silverlight browser plugin... about 4.5 mb, and then you have to restart your browser. Not a great way to focus on the end user experience)


• Another fun flash site with interesting 3D layer effects. Gotta love the 'buzz' section,
  too: http://leecrum.com/


• A site that isn't huge on design, but did extremely well from a Search Engine Optimization standpoint is a site I found when looking for vent covers for A/C. In our home, we have two stories. The upper level doesn't get very cold, while the lower level you can chill meat. I wanted to buy vent covers, so I naturally turned to Google and searched on "magnetic vent air covers." I spoke to the owner via email, and it's been a page he's had up since 1994,
  and performs so well he doesn't want to change it... the customers that buy from him really respond well to this very retro design:
  http://www.armourdiecutting.com/ventcovers/index.htm


• Help a reporter - a great site that allows reporters and subjects to interact on the reporter's terms. Great idea and concept:
  http://www.helpareporter.com/
  
• A nice example of layered flash animation, but not too over-the-top:
  http://www.bionatus.com.br/