We also messed around with what we could have as a homepage before even starting to work with the site itself.  These are the sketches with different types of link graphics.  Ultimately, we did not decide to use any of them but we thought what we ended up choosing in the long run was better.  In the first of these, with the small whirlwinds, they would spin as the mouse hovered over the link.  In the second one, the dots would fade in and out and on the third one, the circles would start in the center and fade outward.  In the final idea, they would simply change color as the mouse hovered over the link.

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