Blog 4: Tempus Flight

Why did people throw their clocks out the window?
They wanted to see time fly!
(I so love corny jokes so I did get interested in this site at first.)

Ummm, I am having a really hard time telling if I like this site or not. I like that it's creative. I like that since it is an art thing they with with more of an artsy type of feel. If their main purpose was to educate me some, they achieved it. If their main purpose was to talk me into wanting to buy the catalog, I don't think they achieved it at all.

The world view I liked. I liked the world map popping up and telling me about what sort of art was found there. I only liked this in Internet Explorer though, it didn't seem to want to work with Firefox which always somwhat gets to me.

I also liked that you can go to a classroom lesson type thing on every page. That's very useful, expecially since it appears they are going after an education audience.

I didn't like the graphics. I feel that if you are going to make an art site you should at least take the time to make sure all your graphics are optimized for whoever is looking at them and they should all be anti-aliased. I felt like they were insulting themselves by not having better graphics, especially when a lot of work had been done on the Flash design, I can't understand why they wouldn't have worked on the graphics for longer.

I think overall I liked this site, but I really, really, really want them to work on the graphics some and I think with a little more time this could have been a much better site.