This is the initial design for the gallery teaser which will be on the home page. We will used the best four images which can each be selected and brought to the front to view. This will then also act as a link to the main image gallery page
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Gallery Teaser
This is the initial design for the gallery teaser which will be on the home page. We will used the best four images which can each be selected and brought to the front to view. This will then also act as a link to the main image gallery page
Outcomes from Thursday 22nd Meeting
We are going to develop this design, we are going to change the layout slightly, get rid of the big facebook box and replace it with a button. We are going to bring in the buttons from Stephen's black design maybe bring in Daryl's pencils for on the buttons? Possibly change the logo, perhaps have the footer image so that it changes slightly on each page. Have a gallery teaser on the front page (which Steven Carroll has a design for that I will post for you to see) Maybe have a horse shoe that comes up when hovering over particular areas or buttons?GROUP TASK
Stephen will upload the psd for this design onto the dropbox, we are all to have a play around with the design and the above comments and upload the resulting psd files to our personal files on the dropbox to look at tomorrow.
Design Ideas
Here are the initial design ideas that the group have come up with for this project.
Sam: Would like to use intergrate horseshoes into the final design if it works
Will develop this hills idea which creates a simple and clean feel to the website
Stephen: We like the layout of this design especially the large buttons on the right with the images behind them.
The whole group liked this design as it developed that inial clean hills design, talking through what we would do to improve the design we said we would, abandon to large facebook box and replace it with a button that links to the facebook page, we would use the style of button seen in the above design. We will bring in a jquery info box at the bottom for us to put links to our own sites as web creaters for the site. We will have a news feed limited to 3 posts but then a button under to show all posts.
Daryl: The group really liked the background image used in this and we especially liked the buttons used for the downloadable forms. We also liked the horse shoe used on the navigation. We want to intergrate the horse shoe and the pencil icons that he had on his buttons. We also like his idea of having a few of the best images on the front page to act as a 'gallery teaser'.
Steven: Used the original logo in his designs, the group have still not decided on which logo will be used in the final design.
Although these two designs are very similar, the group decided that the second one was the better of the two as the spacing is better. We also decided to have a news feed on the home page instead of the about information as most users of the site will be members who will find the news posts more interesting on arrival to the site, if people going onto the site are not members they will only have to click one 'about' button to get the information that they need about the club. If we were to take this design we would change the green slightly - either try to make the green work or use an alternative colour.
Sam: Would like to use intergrate horseshoes into the final design if it works
Will develop this hills idea which creates a simple and clean feel to the website
Stephen: We like the layout of this design especially the large buttons on the right with the images behind them.
The whole group liked this design as it developed that inial clean hills design, talking through what we would do to improve the design we said we would, abandon to large facebook box and replace it with a button that links to the facebook page, we would use the style of button seen in the above design. We will bring in a jquery info box at the bottom for us to put links to our own sites as web creaters for the site. We will have a news feed limited to 3 posts but then a button under to show all posts.
Daryl: The group really liked the background image used in this and we especially liked the buttons used for the downloadable forms. We also liked the horse shoe used on the navigation. We want to intergrate the horse shoe and the pencil icons that he had on his buttons. We also like his idea of having a few of the best images on the front page to act as a 'gallery teaser'.
Steven: Used the original logo in his designs, the group have still not decided on which logo will be used in the final design.
Although these two designs are very similar, the group decided that the second one was the better of the two as the spacing is better. We also decided to have a news feed on the home page instead of the about information as most users of the site will be members who will find the news posts more interesting on arrival to the site, if people going onto the site are not members they will only have to click one 'about' button to get the information that they need about the club. If we were to take this design we would change the green slightly - either try to make the green work or use an alternative colour.
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Research: Showjumping websites
I have continued my research looking at show jumping websites, as in the Riding club websites i haven't really found any more inspiration, however on these for show jumping websites I have found design elements that I like.
The british open show jumping website has a flash banner which is displaying many different images that refresh every few seconds, with added information about upcoming events. The banner is in a prominent position and designed to advertise, however consideration with other design elements on the page haven't really been thought through, the banner looks like it has just been place on the page without any consideration.
On the british show jumping website I like the logo and how the navigation is directly underneath incorporating the same colour. The colour red is also used throughout this website adding to the consistency, however the pages looked very cluttered.
The high offley stud website has an interesting banner incorporating the navigation, I don’t particularly like the banner however I do like how the images have been used. I also like the simple logo, not sure why they have used the colour Green. The colour isn’t used anywhere else on the page, doesn’t seem to be relevant to the logo.
The Olympia horse show website has a Flash banner the same as the British open show jumping website. This banner works a lot better on the page consideration has been paid to positioning. What I like about this website is the consistent use of the same colour purple. The colour is used on the navigation and headings which allows the user to navigate more easier. The colour is also used on the logo which also adds to the consistency of the website.
The british open show jumping website has a flash banner which is displaying many different images that refresh every few seconds, with added information about upcoming events. The banner is in a prominent position and designed to advertise, however consideration with other design elements on the page haven't really been thought through, the banner looks like it has just been place on the page without any consideration.
On the british show jumping website I like the logo and how the navigation is directly underneath incorporating the same colour. The colour red is also used throughout this website adding to the consistency, however the pages looked very cluttered.
The high offley stud website has an interesting banner incorporating the navigation, I don’t particularly like the banner however I do like how the images have been used. I also like the simple logo, not sure why they have used the colour Green. The colour isn’t used anywhere else on the page, doesn’t seem to be relevant to the logo.
The Olympia horse show website has a Flash banner the same as the British open show jumping website. This banner works a lot better on the page consideration has been paid to positioning. What I like about this website is the consistent use of the same colour purple. The colour is used on the navigation and headings which allows the user to navigate more easier. The colour is also used on the logo which also adds to the consistency of the website.
Friday, 16 April 2010
Research into Riding Clubs
In Friday mornings session as a group we decided to start working on the Lambley Riding Club website layouts, we would all work individually on separate layouts and bring them for review next Thursday morning to decide which elements we liked about each others website layouts.
This isn't my normal way of working I normally carry out research first, after about three hours I didn't really have much to show just the navigation and didn't really like that.
Friday afternoon we decided to work independently at home we would meet again Thursday to discuss the website layouts. I decided later that afternoon to carry out research on riding clubs to hopefully gain some inspiration as at the moment I don't have any.I have looked at a number of riding club websites, I normally review three or four discussing elements I like, to gain inspiration to use in my own work. However I have not found any riding club websites that inspire me. In general the websites I have looked at are poorly designed and amateurish in nature. The websites seem to be either very cluttered, all a lack of content, doesn't seem to be any consideration how the pages are laid out. I have to widen my search for websites inspiration, e.g Showjumping, sporting websites and Olympic Games.
Thursday, 15 April 2010
1st Group Meeting
LAMBLEY RIDING CLUB
Thursday 15th April Meeting
- Develop the Logo
- Meet every Thursday at 12pm to work together
- Meet every Friday to follow up from the day before
- Each come up with design ideas to look at
- Have the sign up form as a downloadable version and online form
Home Page
- Logo
- Banner
- Latest News – Diary Journal (PHP)
- Welcome info
- Twitter?
Dates Page
- Dates (PHP)
- Hover over and it says how many days until?
Location Page
- Map
- Location Info
Membership Info
- PDH + PHP
Image Gallery
- Images
Contact Page
- Contact form (PHP)
- Contact Details
Job Allocation :
Stephen – PHP, MySQL Database, Design
Daryl – Page Construction, Design
Steven – Project Leader, Gather Content, Client Liaise, Design, Logo
Sam – Gather Content, Client Liaise, Design, Administrator, Game, Gallery
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