5 posts tagged “web design”
Today I came up with a new idea while I was at uni (unlimited blank paper will do that to you). Unfortunately it looked a lot better in my head and as a thumbnail than as a mock-up. With a bit of tweaking it may work, so I'd love to hear any suggestions.
I'm thinking of doing this one as a Flash folio site. This design gives me ideas for transitions, you see, and I love doing transitions. So far I've only done two slightly different versions of the home page so I thought I'd put them up to gather opinions before I get too far on this. This design is considerably different from the previous one, versions of which can be found here and here.
Thanks to everyone who has been giving me feedback on this project. It's really helping me!
I'm going to stop posting these to the Creative People group for now. I figure at the rate I'm going there will be a post every other day and it will just start to annoy people. I'll just do summary posts at given milestones with links to all the previous posts.
So this is where I'm up to; I was bored and sober tonight so I decided to experiment in ways to solve the dilemma of pink = good but neutral = necessary.
First try: Just replace the pink in the content box with white.
Pros: Colour scheme remains largely unchanged, lots of lovely pink to look at still, no need to add new colours that could muddy things up. Having white directly next to the image will eliminate problems of colours clashing.
Cons: Still very bloody bright. While the image area may be surrounded by white the pink still dominates and still distracts from the image.
Pros: Even less chance of colours clashing. Still retain a good deal of yummy pinkness.
Cons: Lots of dull grey which lessens the overall impact of the site. The grey doesn't exactly fit seamlessly into the colour scheme so it looks a bit muddy. Might work with grey behind the circles in the header.
Pros: At least I get to keep my nice bright green (which is allegedly the web colour of the moment and my attempt to be at least semi-fashionable). The colour scheme works well now. The overall grey tones mean that the images aren't overwhelmed.
Cons: No pink.
Pros: Got my pink back! The pink works well for the ribbon/seal/star thingie.
Cons: I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I decided to experiment with 3D stars. I was going to immediately scrap them, but figured I'd post it and see if everyone agrees with me that they look crap. Other con: now I miss the green.
Now that my arse is in gear I'm up to the next stage of my folio site redesign by getting one idea up to mock-up stage. I know that initially I was going to work on several designs by today, probably only to thumbnail state, but as I worked I realised a) I only had one idea that really jumped out at me, and b) if I kept working to find a design I absolutely loved I'd never be satisfied. So I've picked a design that I like for now and have mocked up several pages. In a few months I'll probably hate it and want to rework the entire thing, but that's guaranteed to happen no matter how long I work on the ideation stage, so I'm happy enough to settle for this one for now.
I'm far too lazy to ever be a perfectionist.
So here's the design as it stands currently. Naturally all feedback is welcome. I'm going for very bright colours a la the whole Web 2.0 thing at the moment, but if anyone thinks it'll look better in a different colour scheme feel free to speak out. (The website isn't going to be called 'name goes here' either. I've just decided to keep a certain level of anonymity and leave my name off the mock-ups.)
What does everyone else think?
Found this at thefunniest.info
It is so, soooo damn true I don't know whether to laugh or cry - or just swear at Internet Explorer some more.
I'm doing well. I'm on track and I've actually completed an additional piece of homework that wasn't on the list (I stupidly didn't check the group work Gantt chart so I'd forgotten it!)
DONE
- First two tasks for our sound editing class
- Two rough drafts for the group project individual poster (one landscape, one portrait)
- Four rough drafts for group project website
