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Glaceau Water

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Jivemug in Artistry

Glaceau water is the owner of Vitamin-water, which we are sure you have seen at some grocery or convenient store near you.  Well, this site offers a simplistic layout which will wet your appetite for great concepts.

The Lowdown: Lets take a look at some of the details of the site!

Okay, as far as layout goes, it’s an A+ straight off the bat.  The site is flash based so you will need flash player to view it, but lets face it who doesn’t have flash player these days (if you don’t get a new computer!)?

Navigation:

Their navigation is very user-friendly when first entering the site, so the average Joe will have no problems finding his way around;  he doesn’t have to worry about pulling his hair out with a cluttered design and to much frilly nonsense.  Navigation areas for the page are located in the top, bottom, and right side of the browser screen.

Animation:

Glaceau’s use of animation with ActionScript is clean and smooth, much like the drinks they sell!  You’ll notice the color changes when navigating through their different product lines.  Click on a bottle that is blue and the rest of the navigation and animations then become blue. Click on a yellow one, and everything turns yellow.  It’s an excellent color change scheme that doesn’t allow you to grow weary of browsing their site with the same ole color every page you visit.

When you navigate to the “Vitamin-Water” section of their site, you’ll notice the scrolling effect used to browse through different flavored beverages.  You can browse through them by clicking the specific bottle or by using the backward and forward arrow buttons.

The color of bottles are arranged in such a way as to create rainbow effect which is really cool.

Downside:

We only found ONE problem with the entire site.  When you first arrive on the main page after loading you will see 3 beverages displayed. The only way to make the animation move is by clicking one of the 3 bottles displayed.  BIG DEAL, we hear you, why nit-pick?  Well it isn’t nit-picking, it’s more of a suggestion, we think.  Instead of making the ActionScript work so the user much click on a bottle for the animation to start, why not have the bottles revolve by clicking two buttons like the sub-pages already have implemented in them? Another suggestion would be the implementation of a dragging option… The user clicks the area and drags to make the bottles rotate.

The Round-up:

All in all this is a great site! Well designed, and scripted.  It truly brings out the thirst in the viewer.

Hope you enjoyed the review today… NOW GO CREATE STUFF!!!!

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