Ok, I’ll say it again, FINALLY! Over the past year of working with Craig I have seen one version of the website prior to this one. While each has had its own style, I am happy to see ONE live. While we can all agree the content is top notch, the latest Section Seven Inc. website takes a fresh approach to content presentation that has caused some common points to crop up all over the net. Size, load time, project details, navigation. Which of these can be be overlooked and which can’t be ignored..

Size
Many have mentioned the site does not agree with smaller monitors. Should designers have to tailor to monitor resolutions under 1280×1024? If you have a monitor less than that SectionSeven probably doesn’t need your business. That being said, an updated version is in the works, but anymore delay with the original launch and craig would have scrapped it altogether. Considering this was the first drop from the developer, and the fact that he is a one man army, we’ll let it go for now and just await the updates.. maybe after Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years/whatever holiday in the upcoming months.

Load Time
The site is HUGE and loads everything in the very beginning. Typically this is a big no-no for people who have lame content. Why? cause their content isn’t worth the wait. SectionSeven is the exception to that rule. It makes the experience pull off without a hitch. No load waits per project, no delays, just straight diving into the content.

Project Details
Interesting and entertaining captions varied for each page in the form of a tool tip bubble. Still no links to the project in any place other than the updates which seems like fault. Let’s hope there is something in V2. Currently there are no larger version of the images, no zoom, and when you think about it there aren’t any thumbnails either. Anne Traver from Methodologie once told me, everything looks better smaller. In this case, they’re neither super larger nor super small - rather they’re just right.

Navigation
Disabling clicking for directional toggles increases wait time. Interrupting the process of closing the book after an accidental click would render very limited delays if any. The content scrubbing by mouse position is great. Open a project and the books fly by with minimal user effort. You should see someone like my mom navigate this site with dual monitors, that is funny.