Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Website Networking Intent

Hopefully through the use of this website i will be able to create an online presence that shows off the quality of my work and makes me extremely easy to contact.

As i dont do much web design i've linked to my twitter so that people can have a look what i'm up to constantly, but also gets abit of my personality across with the tweets that arent about design.

Also the PHP link to my email will mean people can contact me directly and immediately. I dont feel like i want many other links here as i dont want a too many things that i have to try and keep up to date. I have considered starting a flickr account so that i can upload new work more easily to that than to the actual site

Page layout


Managed to get all the pages laid out the way i like, once this is working in flash i will start to try and add some more functionality to the menu.

I would quite like when you roll over the buttons a small window appears with a short description of the project. As i noticed the site i analysed showed the work well but didnt explain any of the content.


Tuesday, 22 March 2011

My own site map and rough sketches.

Home Page:
Back to Mono Logo is a home link
Side Navigation
Vertical Image Clips in the middle so there is a selections of visual work to jump


Project Page:
Features Porject title
Project title will be in bold in the navigation

NB: May also add small write up of brief? unsure yet.


About Page:
Photo of me
Email, will open an email window when clicked
Twitter will open my twitter page when clicked
Will also include my personal statement

NB: May include a downloadable A4 PDF of my portfolio so it can be printed. Currently File size is 8.1MB this maybe to large not sure.


Site Map:
Kept the site really basic so it easy to navigate


Website Analysis: Adrian Newell




www.adriannewell.com

Overview & Aims:
Attract Clients
Generate Interest
Display Portfolio

Target Audience:
Corporate/Small Businesses
Other Designers

All Branded Very Cleanly lots of white space.

Trying to convey alot in the site, Quality of work, Knowledge of design, and his problem solving,

I would assume he has business cards but i found the site through search engines, he is also featured on a number of blogs that are linked to from his site so i assume they will link to his site too


Structure
Content divided into recent work and selected archive work for big clients, such as Radio Head

Everything is shown just in its final stages and no development is shown

There are also alot of pages with a minimal amount of work on each page

Has a very flat structure, heres a site map


Content

The whole site is visual apart from the navigation which is text based

Doesnt have any info on when it was last updates but looks pretty recent.

Contains only contact info and a personal statement.

No info on how the site was built but looks like flash


Visual Design

The whole site is very clean, and minimal, focusing on the work.

It looks like the site is set in arial or helvetica

The only vector graphic is a personal logo a circle with a cut out A

The whole site is left aligned with lots of whitespace.

The only that changes in the work next to the menu which is just to the right of the menu


Navigation

All content accessed from left text menu

Only one image link that take you to the home page the rest are text links

The menu is totally horizontal with single links no drop down menus

The navigation is non linear so you can reach any part of the site at any time

They only kind of animation on the site is a slideshow on the home page

You can scroll vertically up and down the site when the size of he work requires it

The site links to the guys Flickr and his twitter account, and also a number of blogs he features on.


Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Interface design reference

Starting to think about how my site will look, and just saw this post on google revamping its smart phone apps was pretty interesting.

Will keep an eye out for more.

http://www.designtaxi.com/news/34294/Google-Redesigns-iPhone-iPod-Touch-App/

Sunday, 6 March 2011

Grids




Thinking about the layout of the site that i'm going to create and found a really good post that can help me chose how best to do it.