Two website examples which are cool in completely different ways.
Shillam + Smith Architecture Firm
The animation and navigation make this site cool to me. I particularly like that they've used really great animation, but allowed it to remain subtle. So many sites "show off" so much that it is overwhelming--here it is used to great effect, and it supports the navigation and the design idea without becoming the focus of the page. I would imagine that it must be accomplished as a Flash animation, but I really have no idea how they did it (hopefully I'll learn)!
MoMA exhibition of Georges Seurat drawings
This website is cool not because it is doing amazing things technically, but because it is using the technology to create an experience that would not be possible otherwise. Enter the site and click on the "Sketchbooks" link. Four of Seurat's sketchbooks are shown; you can choose one and leaf through it page by page. The experience of looking at individual pages in the sketchbooks is not one you would ever have in a museum--very few people are allowed to examine such a treasure, hands-on.
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