willsmith.com - Worth a visit? (willsmith.com)

Member Name: Jazzy09

Product:	willsmith.com
Date:	24/05/09 (72 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great layout and lots to read about

Disadvantages: None

Link: http://willsmith.com/
Layout: Macromedia Flash
Developed by: COSTA

Will Smith is one of the big movie stars today and like any big star they all have to build their own website for their fans.

EASE OF USE
The website itself is very modern and I found it very easy to navigate around the site finding the latest movies that Will has starred in and also the history of Will Smith.

GRAPHICS
The photos and videos work well and are high quality although the text is quite small and anyone with bad eyesight might struggle with the size of the text. I must admit that some of the Flash programming used can be a bit annoying with flipping of panels which shows his most recent movies.

HYPERLINKS
After doing lots of clicking on this website I did not come across any glitches and every link works and takes you to the correct pages.

PAGE LOADING SPEEDS
Considering that the website uses Flash each page does not take very long to load and I only use a 2 MB broadband connection and takes less than 5 seconds to load.

SECTIONS OF THE WEBSITE

HOME: This section shows Will Smith's most recent movies and lets the user choose other sections of the site.

THE ARTIST: This gives a brief overview of Will Smith's career which is useful if you know nothing about this artist.

THE NEWS: This section has brief paragraphs about recent news and old news too. You can also read the full news stories about Will which I found useful finding information about up and coming movies he was starring in.

THE BIG SCREEN: This was one of my favourite sections of his website as it gives you a nice neat Flash screen which can be easily scrolled through to find all the movies which Will Smith has starred in from his very first to his most recent.

THE MUSIC: You can pretty much tell what this section is about. The layout is the same as the BIG SCREEN page but shows all Will Smith's music albums from start to end.

MESSAGE BOARD: Here you can write reviews and talk about anything you wish that is Will Smith related but must first register which does not take very long to do.

I wanted to ask members what they thought about his latest film Seven Pounds and got useful feedback. You can also scroll back and see previous messages in different forums about old movies.

COMPATIBILITY
This website will work fine as long as you have flash plugins installed. These can be downloaded from the macromedia flash website. Otherwise it works like a dream.

CONSLUSION
Great website and rate this as one of the best movie star website I have come across to date.

RATING: 4/5

Summary: Great website and would recommend to any who likes Will Smith!