Saturday, November 12, 2011

Interactive Sites of Illuminated Manuscripts

I found this site to be an interesting site when discussing illuminated manuscripts. I found this site when I was on google looking for different sites about illuminated manuscripts when I came across this one.  I started looking around to see how it was interactive, and I noticed that there were pictures all around the site. I clicked on the pictures, and what popped up was not just an enlarged photo, but also a description of the illuminated manuscript selected, the creator of the manuscript (if that information was available), where it was made, a larger photo than shown previously, and around what time it was created. I like this site because it was not too fancy, but it was also not too simple. It lays out several illuminated manuscripts out in plain view for whoever visits the site to see, and it also gives a small amount of information when looking at the manuscript. I like how you are able to click on the picture and even more information about that manuscript appears. Several different options appear if you would like to learn more about that manuscript, or you can leave that area to the main area, where you are able to look at different manuscripts and choose which one you want to look at. This site does not do anything unnecessarily fancy in order to keep your attention, but it also has enough links, pictures, and information to keep a person interested. This is why I enjoyed this site that went over illuminated manuscripts.
This site, like the one above, talks about illuminated manuscripts. I also found this to be an interesting site when looking up different things with illuminated manuscripts. I found this site too when I was on google searching for a site that has interactive capabilities with illuminated manuscripts. I came across this site and began looking around in it and I thought it was very interesting. The site looks like it was made for small children, but it actually can help people with the understanding of illuminated manuscripts. I like this site because it not only talks about some things relating to illuminated manuscripts, but it also helps with the learning of other things as well. There is one page that gives a description of illuminated manuscripts, but that is not all the site has. There are links to different words on the description, which will bring you to a different page that describes the word or phrase that you clicked on. I found this a helpful tool because, if there is a word or phrase that you don’t understand on the description that is also highlighted in blue, you can click on it and you can understand it much better by reading what is printed about that word or phrase. There is nothing very special about this feature, other than it helps you understand the word or phrase better, but I think that is a good thing. It will help keep you on task by not straying from the topic by doing a lot of unnecessary things. This is why I liked this site about illuminated manuscripts.

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