Turkish potential delight.

Most irritating opening page this month has to go to the architecture museum at www.archmuseum.org. It's not that it's not a case of pretty and clever use of text graphics and it's not that it doesn't have a 'Skip intro' button, it is just that it is an unnecessary bit of designer showing-off--which resulted, when I did press the skip button, in the message 'ADOB.Field error' plus a bit more arcane text which suggests that the designer is using Dreamweaver and needs more practice. This turns out to be the site of the first step in the creation of a 'real life' Turkish museum of architecture. Truth to tell it's all a bit inchoate but they have a cool designer on board--who needs a bit of disciplining over things like the aforesaid over-enthusiastic and over-long introductory graphics display plus adjustable text plus the concept of viewers not having to break their necks to read sideways text. And there is anyway too much immediately visible text which you don't bother to read because it is in dark grey on a light grey background and of a pretty small point size. Yet there are some intriguing design touches such as the tiny icons which you only gradually discover such as the scarcely-noticeable up arrow which takes you to the home page and the magnifying glass which confusingly turns out to stand for the search engine not zooming in. But take a look and remember it has a virtuous purpose and possibly an important future.