1. video sequences: could be useful for viewing navigational instruments, actual ships, or conservation (if you've decided to include that); also for a tour round - e.g. - the NMM's storage areas; and for sequences of Cutty Sark etc;
2. panoramas: a good way of offering high-quality details of large paintings and of great sweeps such as Greenwich itself;
3. hotspotted panoramas: another way of augmenting the navigation possibilities around large paintings, or architectural ensembles. Not difficult to set up, and a good way not only of leaving in the hands of the user the navigation around the site, but also of keeping the HTML pages looking clean and uncluttered. And such hotspotting would be a good way of allowing the essayists to refer to details of illustrations, and then return to the text;
4. my zoom program or similar? Whereas my program requires a running server (and is in fact a way of navigating around a very large image from a smaller version of it - i.e. NOT a true zoom), various zoomable applications can be found for webpages or as standalone .EXE programs - cf. the offerings of http://www.pixaround.com (the viewer is free). My false-zoom program offers full-size views of image sections, and is probably more useful across the web than on a CDROM (whence one might expect users to get up the full image? but see the next item). i.e. the decision on whether to use this (or similar) depends on how large the stored images on the website/CDROM are to be;
5. light-table: my program (a set of perl scripts running under Linux - needs a running server) allowing the user to select from a database, and then sort, store and print HTML pages of thumbnails backed by larger images; something like this could be very useful to the student or teacher, who may well wish to make their own patterned selections from the material on offer;
6. simultaneous web/CDROM release? perhaps mainly a marketing/publicity matter, unless you wish a CDROM to contain much higher quality images than the website - in which case plan for this now;

There are four main reasons for introducing panoramas:

• they add pseudo-three-dimensions to the "flat" scenes of paintings and drawings;
• they add a context in which the viewer can, in the mind's eye, insert such paintings and drawings. All artists have known and acted on this, from Holbein to Canaletto. If contemporary photographic panoramas are necessarily less "clean" and romantic than those of previous centuries, they will still underline the important place of things maritime in the British fabric;
• they place useful "interactivity" in the hands of the user;
• in some ways they echo much maritime painting, which is itself panoramic in view - especially the large battle scenes;

1. Woolwich;
2. Royal Naval Hospital from the river; are there any historical photographs showing the site from across the river? What would a shot from the top of the Millennium Dome look like (before they pull it down? :))
3. Chelsea Hospital, as a matching bit of English Baroque;
4. some of the great Baroque ensembles in Paris and Bordeaux, for comparison: Invalides, Champ de Mars, the riverside at Bordeaux - I can provide photographs and perhaps the odd panorama;
5. inside Wasa? HMS Victory?

1. build panoramas of large paintings, so the users can move around and zoom in and out to examine their often fascinating detail. This way the user will better understand the large scale of many marine paintings;
2. include aerial photographs and satellite photographs, the former because they are better at showing layout, the latter because they show scale - another way of emphasising the importance of Greenwich in the life of Britain;