Millennium Experience web site
Design build and maintain the official web site for the Millennium Dome.
Limitless formed a consortium with with longitude0 and Denison Design and won a 40-way pitch to design and build the official web site for the New Millennium Experience.
At this time - in 1997 - the building had been designed but the experience inside had not.
The site structure that Paola had put together for the proposal was chosen as the structure to launch the site with.
Denison Design hired extra design staff to provide a number of design routes.
Paola advised Denison on the navigation design by providing some rules to maximise way-finding.
- each main section has its own colour
- the section colour is applied to all headings and decorative graphics within the section
- each main section has its own graphic
- global and navigation link graphics have selected & unselected states
The chosen design featured different coloured shapes which opened up to reveal their contents, each relevant to the site section. Denison also created individual graphics for the sub-section pages.
Functional decoration
Taking The Dome section of the web site, this is how section and depth were conveyed through the design.
Firstly, each section was colour-coded. The colour was applied to site graphics and heading colours.
Next, a page's depth was conveyed by navigation and page header graphics.
Level 2 page
Level 3 page
Level 4 page
In these pages, the side navigation and page headers change.
Tessa Denison animated the main page header graphics, including a capsule at section pages opening up to reveal the contents.
Level 2 page
Level 3 page
Level 4 page
Navigation menu on the home page (level 1)
Navigation menu on a level 2 page
The selected icon is glowing.
Navigation menu on a level 3 page
The capsule is open.
The third part of the consortium - longitude0 - provided administration services.
Paola wrote the specifications and estimates and managed the site updates.
