its a hit

A website entryway can easily be a hit or miss.  Often a flash animation piece,  entryways are usually short introductions intended to excite the viewer before actually entering a website main homepage.  There may be some other technical or rational reasons for these elaborate entries, yet, to the average web traveler, they can make or break a website in a matter of seconds.  The Street Level Youth Media website has an entryway that is quite impressive and I spent just as much time interacting with it as I did with the actual website.  You can move your cursor back and forth over the moving pillars to change its circular direction or the speed at which it moves.  What really makes this entryway successful is the fact that you can easily move to the homepage without delay.  In the past, I have often found myself distracted or frustrated with entryways that take to long to load and inhibit me from reaching my destination.  Entryways that are disconnected from the main website because they don't make sense or come across as just a cool tag on is another way to loose my interest.  However, I can say that the Street Level Youth Media designed a thoughtful entryway.  As for the content of the site, all the necessary information was available and easy to find.  I appreciate the fact that there are video examples so viewers can get a sneak peak of what students are coming up with in the video production studios.  The amount of information that is available on the website has given me the impression that they are a considerably new organization or an older organization with a new look.  I am aware that their facilities recently experienced a fire and have lost a lot of material.  I was actually across the street the night it happened.  Whatever the case, I am glad that this organization is still moving forward and I give them props for not letting the fire jeopardize what they have to offer youth in Chicago.  Street Level Youth Media Rocks.