http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/index.html

For my Online Multimedia Critique I am looking at CNN’s Home and Away War Casualties multimedia piece. This is a breath-taking project put together that shows where many of the troops have died and their hometowns in the U.S.

This project gives details on how many troops died in the area, and then when you select an area you get a closer look at the names of those who died in each area. It gives a description of how each solider died, and it also shows a portrait of the solider if available.

Going through the navigation it looks clean, and the colors are perfect for the information. The project has a black background that outlines the project. And then the maps are a dark color.

One of my complaints about this project is the size. It is a lot of information, and it takes a little while to load. Sometimes when you pull up the site you will have random pop ups from their website causing the user to click refresh to bypass the pop ups.

I think it would be really interesting if they added a civilian tab. I would want to see where most of the journalists have died, and where some other contractors have been killed. This information would be much more difficult to obtain, but I believe it would be a very cool addition.

I believe this is one of the best multimedia projects I have seen yet, and it provides a great service for families or anyone in our country to appreciate those who are fighting for us.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/index.html