Similar to the Bestival website, the splash page is entirely built in Flash. A click of one of the options takes you to the regular HTML website (shown below), where the details are posted. I like the series of speech bubbles that are identical save colour, although some of them contain the same content so have clearly been added simply to complete the visual effect. I believe this is bad as form has been placed over function.
Once again, form comes before function in terms of it being Flash. A major flaw of the website is that the viewer must click at least once to another page beyond the splash page to find out the dates of the website. Normally this would be acceptable for a splash page, but the Big Chill website adds a lot of detail for a splash page, which I feel is unnecessary.
A further criticism is that the text at the top doesn't work as the desginer intended. The sentences don't fit the lines, while links are posted inbetween them in different colours. The menu on the right is also far too large and results in the user having to scroll simply to navigate.
One advantage of the site is that it has a coherent colour scheme, even if it is not used effectively.
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