Website Of The Week – Club 18-30

http://www.club18-30.co.uk

I cannot deny that from a Club 18-30 website I expected plenty of oiled bodies, burgeoning cleavage and loads of wanton nymphs. What you actually get, however, is loads whizzing, full-motion graphics and lots of clever special effects. In fact so many moving words and flashing colours that one could be forgiven for saying, too many Javascript effects.

Navigation of the site is via a unique device which 18-30 calls the Remote Control. This is brought to the front of the screen by clicking on the Remote Control link in the top right; you can then use the buttons on the control to change your location on the main site. This is very clear and simple way to move back and forth between the different areas.

Although there are plenty of whirling images to look at, there is very little content there at present. The X Channel has yet to launch, the Shopping Channel only sells Club 18-30 mugs and calenders and the Channel Surfer is just a series of links to various other sites. The main bulk of stuff then, is in the Resorts section. Here you can check out the hotels and find out which resorts have sold their soul to the God of 24-hour partying. Particularly impressive from a technological point of view is the 360° view of various locations on the resorts; by placing the cursor on the picture and dragging it around you can get a panoramic view of the hotel room, poolside and balcony view.

The Sports Channel is a little ill-named as it actually only contains football teams, albeit from every division. The idea is that you select your chosen team and are then whizzed off to a site full of information on that team. However, on attempting to hear the latest on Rotherham Utd., the link simply returned the classic 404 Not Found message. If they can’t get the Millers link right then there’s just no point going on.

Finally, Club Music TV allows you to take samples and mix your own bangin’ tune. Yeah, good one geezers. There’s also a couple of juke box rooms, but, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t find any Jim Reeves. Plenty of kickin’ dance tunes though; although I can’t see the clubbing experience being quite the same gathered around a PC internal speaker. Still, good fun.

Reviewer: Scott Billings