Not so goth

[jod999]

New York Fashion Institute of Technology. Doing a show called Gothic: Dark Glamour. Which has a Web site. That they submitted for Best of the Web.

Good, right? Wrong!

This exhibition had some nice pieces. But you wouldn't know it from the Web site. Pedestrian. Stilted. Self-conscious. Dull!

What's good about the site?

• There are some interesting stuff.
  
• The slide show is nice, but you can't control it at all.
  
• The start of your Flickr set is more interesting than your exhibition site.
  
• I found out how to spell Kei Kagami's name from your video transcript. Having video transcripts is good (but they don't link back to the videos).
  
• You put a playlist on last.fm.
  

What sucks?
Pretty much everything else.

• The navigation is next... next... next... How could you? Just don't!
  
• You don't give me control of the audio.
  
• Some of your best content, like your exhibition slide show, is hidden.
  
• I didn't even realize I could click the thumbnails at first.
  
• Your book list is just that, a list without commentary or analysis.
  
• The last page is an 'everything else' page.
  
• Your site has a last page.
  

I came to this site via the Museums and the Web Best of the Web 2009 nominations. Museums and the Web is the greatest conference I've never been to and their Best of the Web recipients are generally excellent. Caught and Coloured snagged an honorable mention for Museum Victoria in 2007. Eternal Egypt (from 2005) is still a favorite of mine, even if the multimedia doesn't play now.

So if you are going to enter, enter something half-way decent, please. Playing with the big kids now. Up against sites like Women, Power and Politics. You didn't win.

I really wanted to like this site, which made me hate it all the more.