I wrote a small amount of JS and CSS to give this page: https://thelibrarian.cc an old UI look and animate it in the same style as typical 90s UIs I have seen during my childhood in La Femme Nikita, Unreal Tournament, Starcraft and The Matrix.
It's a landing page for a book I wrote.
What can I do to make it more interesting?
An option I am considering is allowing user interaction after the main animation finishes. So one can explore and browse the files of other subjects and learn more about the corporation. Would you like something like this?
In my opinion that shouldn’t be the landing page. If someone is going to the books’s webpage usually they want either to buy it, or to read about it. They almost certainly do not want to see a pretty animated introduction.
So, put the book page first. Instant gratification is key nowadays.
Then put a link saying something like “learn about characters” that goes to the animation.
Extend the animation so you have one for each of the three people on the cover. Make it a branching thing, first the “loading” screen, make it give a menu with the 3 people, each being a link to an animation about that person.
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What can I do to make it more interesting?
An option I am considering is allowing user interaction after the main animation finishes. So one can explore and browse the files of other subjects and learn more about the corporation. Would you like something like this?
So, put the book page first. Instant gratification is key nowadays.
Then put a link saying something like “learn about characters” that goes to the animation.
Extend the animation so you have one for each of the three people on the cover. Make it a branching thing, first the “loading” screen, make it give a menu with the 3 people, each being a link to an animation about that person.