Beautiful site sugg.

So far, three suggestions have been received indicating web site designs which we might wish to imitate. (Suggestions of web designers who have an impressive portfolio which we might wish to consider are also welcome.) Please solicit others to suggest more. We want to have both elegant site design and easy and transparent access to information in the categories people most intuitively think of.

0. Our current web site shows up as 8" wide independent of the width of the screen, leaving space to have other windows open at the same time. It uses a single space for most of the menu-bar equivalents to expand (using the "+" signs on the left side of our home page), rather than expanding each in a separate space as does possibility 3. below. This is why our current web site does not need to take so much space horizontally. (This applies to the content portion of most pages. Some pages in addition have rock art images along the left side, which can be viewed or moved off screen to the left.)

1. The site of the Trust for African Rock Art, perhaps for its alternating images which roll over at intervals. This certainly communicates that there is lots of wonderful rock art and landscapes to be experienced. This seems not to impose any serious requirements on web browsers, although it may work less well on dialup connections than on DSL or Cable. [Leigh Marymor, Nov. 2008]

2. The wonderful map of rock art sites in Latin America which is very visual, which allows one to click on a rock art site and to download an electronic paper also posted on the Rupestreweb site. If we were to try the same for North America, we would not be able to link electronically to all of the publications we would like to. But it's certainly a very useful device which we could adapt. It would require substantial help from lots of individuals to supply links etc. Is the programming difficult? [Lloyd Anderson 2009]

3. The Texas Archaeological Society
http://www.txarch.org/index.html
This site uses an extra-wide home page (shows up as 11.2 inches on a screen 13" wide; shows up as 15.5" on a screen over 18" wide, in both cases almost filling the screen) with color photos at the top, and drop-down menus which remain on many or all pages. Each drop-down menu expands in a separate space, the reason for such a great horizontal width. Some of the photos change from one page to another, and of course more use can be made of this. [Evelyn Billo, May 2009]