Wetpaint

wetpaint

www.wetpaint.com

What do you do if you have a hobby or past time that a lot of people are interested in, and you want to be able to create a site that everyone can contribute to?

The answer is wiki. At wetpaint you can learn how to make simple and effective wiki pages in three easy steps.

Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Whilst you don't need to use this site to achieve that goal, it takes all of the hard work out of the process so even the most technically inept surfers can take part.

Click the link to play the tutorial on the opening page for an overview. When you're ready to get started just click the big green GO. Now just follow the steps, choosing who you want to be able to view and or edit the pages, a basic template for the design, and then inviting the people you want to participate.

It's fast, totally free, and you don't have to be a genius to make compelling pages - you just need some interesting content and a bunch of mates to help you out.

10 Ways

10 Ways

www.interact10ways.com

There are many different ways to look at art, both literally, and figuratively speaking. Our first site today is from Getty Images, one of the best known image banks in the world.

This is a simply awe-inspiring website, filled to the brim with stunning images and ways to explore them through 10 separate, uniquely structured virtual paths. It's a site you will get lost in as you wander through the immense collection - and don't let the opening graphics fool you, this is one highly sophisticated piece of web design.

Click the opening image to enter the sub menus, split into categories such as Light, Information, Memory, Space, Time and Emotion. Clicking a sub menu takes you to a page displaying the two exhibits in that section. Each exhibit can be launched in a new window, and then you are free to interact with the contents and discover what is inside.

I can't tell you which exhibit to visit first as they are all amazing. From the never ending journey of images in Information, to the engrossing interactions that allow you to measure your emotions pictorially in Emotion.

All brilliantly presented and beautifully created. Well done Getty, a real winner.