this image is taken from http://www.terra.com.br/ . isn’t it cute!? terra.com.br has really cool layout and colors. they even have cool advertisements. I hate pop-up ad banners, but recently I see advertisements with really beautiful graphics on the internet. I often stare at them as they are so well designed. I have a website at tripod.com.br., which is a part of terra.com.br. so, they have the same ad banners. I am very glad that there are ad banners with nice graphics and Portuguese words on my site as I love portuguese. I had a webpage from hpg.com.br. before, but their ad banners are ugly, so, I stopped using their service.
I think I am kind of obsessed with advertisements in general recently. if I dont like a company’s advertisement, I try not to use its product very hard. for example, I hate subway’s tv commercial. well, I do not like subway anyway, but that commercial makes me never ever want to go to subway.
terra.com.br. has the coolest page ever called expresso2222.terra.com.br.
Expresso2222 is obviously a song of Gilberto Gil. the page features him and very beautiful graphics. their flash page is phenomenal. I love Gilberto Gil so much! He has been actively making great music and been popular for more than 30 years straight.
for some reason brazilian and portuguese portal sites have great designs. www.clix.pt./ and www.terravista.pt should be good examples. terravista.pt has too many pop-up banners, though. american portal sites such as yahoo, lycos, altavista, etc, look very boring compared to the sites I mentioned above. I guess european people have really good sense of style. I have not looked at other countries’ portal sites yet, but I would like to do it soon.
