The beauty of simplicity…

So, while exploring through various websites provided in lecture and tutorial, I saw a healthy amount of real creative sites. Sites that were filled with sound and video effects, witty transitions, mouse-over applications, etc. But then when my friend casually told me to throw some pictures up on webshots.com so he could see them a second, the site’s simplicity overruled many of the recent loaded sites I’d been to. In just a couple minutes, my friend here, and family and friends back in the States as well, were quickly in awe of my adventures in New Zealand! No flashy attraction or intensely clever site technology; one can make it as attractive as he desires with the creativity and originality of his own pictures. Content over presentation with this idea. For the fact that the presentation takes care of itself with your own original display of personal photos. May be old hat to some, but just a reiteration of the underlining benefits of the simple ideas that are often overshadowed by the ever-growing creative work that so many continue to generate on the web. The precious simplicity that allowed my family in Michigan and myself here to see the birth of a friend’s baby in South Africa, literally hours after her delivery. All without the wait for a flash application to download.

-Claire