Sunday, September 16, 2007

You Know What They Say About Big Feet...

On the website for the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the layout chunks information into individual interest areas. For instance, they use one space to draw attention to the latest sighting, the sidebar to show regions which readers can then use to explore possible sightings, and another space to advertise for their next exploration.

Since the website uses a design that separates each topic into its own bubble, it is fairly easy to see the separation between each new topic. Therefore, the pictures found within the bubbles have text next to it that correlates with the picture. The size of the graphic usually complements the text pertaining to it. The site uses a black background, and on the page then lies a grey box as a background for the stories and a blue box for the sidebar. On the grey box, each story has its own brighter color that draws attention to the story. Each page still has the black background, but the layout of each one changes to give a personal look and feel. This works well for the website because there is so much information present that the slight layout changes make it more interesting for the reader and does not make them feel as if they are looking at the same page over and over.

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