Excellent Multimedia Design - Part 1

 Today, I'm going to be discussing a couple of examples of excellent multimedia web design. The first website I'm going to be covering will be Avoriaz. This is a website designed for a resort in France. 

Overview of Website

I love the fact that the whole experience is user selected. When you hover over the "Winter" or "Summer" titles, the picture zooms in and the text gets highlighted. 

Once you select one of the options, you are taken to an amazing, beautiful 360-degree view of the resort that is consistent with the season you picked. You are able to click and drag to view the whole mountain side and valley below. 

I chose to look at the "Overview of Residences". This takes you directly over top of the resort and you are then able to further access resources and more information about the amenities of the resort. 

Multimedia Review

This site makes very effective use of multimedia and creates an immersive, interactive experience for their users. The user feels like they are getting an inside look at the resort. You are able to view each of their amenities as if you were experiencing them. 

The web designers utilized an excellent use of photography and animation to develop and enhance the natural beauty of this location. They used an immense quantity of photographs to really get the feel and document the resort accurately. 

Their use of animation accents the photographs they used. It is ingenious and helpful to have each of the links to more information and pages be in the form of the circles that expand to show more detail on a mouse hover. 

I'm sure that part of the site's attractiveness is simply the beautiful creation surrounding it, but the developers found a way to not only showcase that beauty but enhance it.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where I'll be looking into another web site!