SO YOU STILL THINK THE INTERNET IS FREE?

This is cool little site, both for the information it conveys and the diagrams it uses to convey them.

http://yuxiyou.net/open/

I think it's interesting to note how clean-cut and modern the entire site looks (kinda almost looks like someone from Apple designed it) and yet most of it is white space and the graphics are all very simple, any one of us could make them in illustrator in less than an hour. I think this just goes to show how a website's overall composition doesn't need to be super detailed in order for it to be visually appealing and functional.

Also think about what the goal of this website was and how that relates to its design. I would venture to guess that the designer's goal was to convey this information to as many people as possible. He/she did this very well by
1- making the navigation of the sire extremely simple (you jsut scroll down or you click a down button that scrolls down for you), thereare no links or other things crowding up the site, it's clear that there is only one thing the website is going to tell you about no distractions.
2- using graphics that were extremely simple and EXTREMELY readable. you dont have to have a college degree to understand what each graphic is telling you. this is very well executed translation from information to graphic.