Golfactory: Nearly there!

We have decided to go along the sketch book style for our Web page. This is influenced by Paul's work and also Shaun encoraging us to break away from the standard formal layouts we are so used to. This is an exhibition website and so we need to reflect the subject matter in the design.

On our last meeting with Paul, we showed him our designs and he was very keen on Vikesh's design so since we have been developing this. One problem that we have encountered has been the fonts. We would've liked a handwriting style, however we are aware not may people will have this font available to their browsers so we have had to replace this with a typewriter font 'Courier' with is much more widely used. This is a shame because I think the previous font did suit the design much better how ever it is a sacrifice we must take.

Homepage: I think this looks a lot more rigid than the other pages but i was trying to combat issues such as introduing the method of navigation. It looked a lot better with the the notepad on the bottom right and the exhibition poster at top left however, I think this way the user will notice the navigation tabs a lot quicker as we read left to right. I am also starting to worry a little about how we are going to code this as divs only allow you to be at right angles. This design would be much easier to convert into Flash. I also think it need something extra; this age doesn't look ery dynamic especially for a homepage...


Artists landing page: The polaroids would act as links to artists that have had the most recent activity and the rest having text links on the notepad. The notepad might have to end up being more square on the page dueto the limitations of HTML and CSS.

Artists Profile Page: This would have a polaroid picture of the artist or an example of their work along side a short bio of the artist. Their work would be view using lightbox. The current site already uses this and it will allow for short captions under each image.
Exhibitions Landing Page: I have started to make things a bit more square on the page. I think this is a shame but maybe we could make a flash version at a later date?? I am also aware of the posters disappearing into the background. This needs to be combatted so they stand out more either using white paper behind or by encorporating the polaroids because i think they work really well.

Tomorrow we are going to have a meeting and finalise a design the send the mock ups to Paul for conformation. In the coming weeks we will focus on the HTML and CSS. Not sure yet how we will section these pages off but we will also discuss this so we can get cracking!