Tidbit: EricRyanAnderson.com horizontal scrolling
Horizontal scrolling is tricky. It’s a relatively new idea in web design, but its peculiar character restricts it to portfolio and art sites. Most users won’t even see the scrollbar down below, not to mention that all of them will think that it’s there because of a peculiar layout error.
Horizontal scrolling is very fitting for the portfolio of mr. Eric Ryan Anderson though. Entering the page, you’re greeted with nice big stills, a sample of his portfolio, that make your eye wander to the right, and not to the bottom. I like this approach, even though I’d prefer to have a floating “back” link of some sort at the bottom (right now, you can only go back to the start by clicking on the link at the far right):
The photos are crisp, the colour theme helps, the typography is nice, but I’d lose the peculiar logo symbol next to the name, it doesn’t add much to the style, on the contrary.
EricRyanAnderson.com is a nice, clean portfolio site, without the horrific Flash and the hullaballoo of other similar sites.
eric ryan anderson, ericryananderson.com, horizontal, web design
January 21st, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Did you notice what happens when you click on a photo? You are transferred to the next one. That’s interesting.
Great review.
January 21st, 2008 at 9:59 pm
@porcupine: Yes, noticed that, that’s nice. As I said, in my humble opinion, this is an horizontal site made right.