The Worldwide Highway Library has a New Look



Carl Rogers announces a revamped interface for the Worldwide Highway Library (WHL), a collaborative project managed by Calrog.com. The road-based website helps familiarise its visitors with interregional corridors in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Through the countless contribution of eight photographers and many other volunteers, the WHL continues to grow and offers coverage of international major cities, countryside resorts and smalltown villages.

A tier-driven menu structure now allows WHL visitors to choose from three different types of media: photographs, videos, and 360-degree captures (known as "WHL-360s"). When the user selects a type of media, he or she can figuratively zoom onto the continent, country and/or region that best suits interest. Until recently, users were overwhelmed with an antiquated interface that put photographs, videos and WHL-360s on a single page. The website can be found at http://worldwide-hwys.calrog.com.

"Any growing entity must have a defined hierarchy," states Rogers. "In terms of the Worldwide Highway Library, we grew from a grassroots, regional-based website into a venue that today provides 2,184 photographs and 135 videos from across the globe. Due to the small coverage we once offered, it made sense for us to put all media formats onto a single webpage. Our antiquated layout simply will not fly these days because the vast amounts of information would leave an impression of 'crowding' to the visitor's eyes. Today, our tier-driven menu gives worldwide visitors the decision to choose which kinds of media format suits their interest, and more importantly, gives them a streamlined hierarchy that enables them to zoom onto the country of their choice."

Over the past eight years, the Worldwide Highway Library has captured content from eighteen countries and growing. In addition to English-based coverage, the WHL also includes localised support in French, Italian and German. All videos captured in Mexico contain discussion in Spanish.

About the owner

Carl Rogers is a highway-photographer and historian. His hobbies include studies of road layouts, numbering assignments for highways, international border-crossings and different variations of terrain. When he is not studying road-related material, his other realms of interest include analysis of Interpersonal Psychology and Personal Computer trends. He is fluent in French & semi-fluent in German. With these linguistic skills under the belt, he leverages these tongues when taking highway-photography trips throughout western and central Europe. Carl was born an American citizen, and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

About Calrog.com

Since 2000, Calrog.com has been an integrated media arm in Turn-of-the-Century PC Development, International Transportation Research, and Interpersonal Psychology. It has served your home country and ninety-nine of its worldwide neighbours since 2000, through Internet downstream and published works.

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Carl Rogers

http://worldwide-hwys.calrog.com





The Worldwide Highway Library has a New Look