First Designs

I have laid out several possible website designs, all covering different themes and ideas. The first to show is a series of designs that are based upon a blog. I have created several versions of this, experimenting with the colours, positioning and outlining. The design is clean and simple, but is very structured and therefore facilitates a limited amount of information. I also do not feel it allows for enough dynamism in the design; an element of key importance in my opinion.



I therefore took this design and modified it significantly to create a new design, shown below. This design is much more advanced and more complicated. It looks more like a website than a blog, but the blog element can still be seen in the blue-highlighted section in the centre. A patterned background could be repeated easily across the screen, as could a banner for the header. This design allows for a greater amount of information.

One downfall of the design so far is that the optimum line length for text is grossly exceeded. It fails to attract attention and comes across as rather 'wordy'. A possibility therefore is to create a new column where features can be placed. This have two advantages as it would narrow the central column as well as facilitating more information space. An example of where this has been done is on the Guardian website, which can be seen in the 'Organising Information' post.