Street Level Youth Media, an organization giving a media "voice" to underserved youth ages 14-19, seems like a pretty amazing operation...the website was a pleasure to visit. The interactive home page was fun (and no scrolling required), and once inside the site, I found it easy to navigate. The tabs and sidebars were logical and easy to follow. My only suggestion might be to add drop down menus, but then again, not having them made me go to each portion of the site, so maybe the lack of drop downs is meant to get people moving all around the site.
They seem to have a lot of interesting projects going on, in particular FAVC - Female Action Voicing Change, the Changing Community Project, and a cool Summer Arts Apprenticeship Program. The organization seems to be well networked, with its partnerships w/CPS , CAPE, and a bunch of other schools, including SAIC. The archive was fun to peruse, but I am surprised there isn't a larger archive - they seemed to have mostly current stuff, and I'm wondering if when they put up the new, they take down the old?
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i don't know if this actually is the reason for the lack of archive, but street level suffered a fire in their main space recently, and lost a lot of equipment, etc. they've continued to thrive by being creative and shifting resources, etc. and staying active in outreach, but i know it's been tough for them.
ReplyDeletei like your suggestion of the drop-down menus. sure the lack of them got you to move around the site, but some people may not have the patience. another potential design structure for those menu items could be like they have on the saic site (i think it's called accordion navigation). you click on it to make a section show up, and click again to collapse the section.
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