Multimedia is ok shock
I'm not usually that enamored with multimedia presentations on the web, as they are usually, frankly, rubbish, and interrupt my Editors cd with a sudden whoosh of electronic fanfare that I wasn't expecting. It was with some trepidation then, that decided to 'Take the Tour' of Sun's Energy Efficient Datacenter, whilst on a whistlestop design tour of sun.com. The eco innovation initiative launch page itself is worth the entrance fee, and is bursting with info, which is neatly compartmentalized using the wonderous css overlays that Andrew developed, so I was quietly confident about anything that launches from that page.
As it turns out, its one of the best 'tours' I've taken online recently. The design consistency and alignment with sun.com and Sun's branding was good (not sure about a couple of the fonts) and the little things were right; the progress bars, the glyphs, rounded corners (naturally). What I really liked though, was the Sun staff talking to you directly, all neatly set up against the white background, with their own little shadows following their movements on the 'floor'.
Some of the segments took an age to load, and I'm sure someone can point to a design rule on opposing gradients in the template, but overall, this is a rather nice implementation. I also learned a bunch of stuff about Sun's eco innovation initiative which I didn't know before (which wasn't much), which is nice. Give it a go yourself at the eco innovation initiative launch page on sun.com.
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