Showing posts with label Layout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Layout. Show all posts

Thursday, 30 May 2013

Designing my Website - I am almost ready to build it

I have reached a point where I can now just start to build my website. But before I start building, I want to just  explain the design I have come up with.

After researching a variety of topics, and looking and analysing many creative people's websites, I have narrowed down my design to these areas.

1. It will have 3 web pages.
 - Home
 - Portfolio
 - Contact

2. It will be a clean site. Probably white. Yes, I have been converted, and the more I look at these "new" and "modern" sites, the more I can see how my grungy sites look dated.

3. It will have some sort of image slider / Carousel, probably as a simple JQuery script.

4. The contact page will probably just be my email address with maybe some Social media buttons.

5. The navigation will be a horizontal bar/ribbon along the top.


Sunday, 19 May 2013

Single Page Websites

From my research I am discovereing that there seems to be a trend to having website, which fit onto a long single continus page. The navigation works as normal, but it simple "jumps" to an anchor point on the same page. I will investigate if this design layout is for me.

Sample Sites using the single page layout:

Wit Creative


CSS Piffle

IndoFolio


After investigating this style of website, I found that I wasn't really comfortable designing and building one long HTML webpage. I still like the multipage website layout. So I am not going to be building a single page website for this project. But I think I will want to build one in the future, I just need to find the right sort of web site for this type of design.

Links:

One Page Love
http://onepagelove.com/
Creative Techniques for Single-Page Websites,
http://webdesignledger.com/tips/creative-techniques-for-single-page-websites

21 Inspiring Single Page Websites | Inspiration
http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/21-inspiring-single-page-websites

50 Creative and Inspirational Single Page Websites
http://www.onextrapixel.com/2012/12/13/50-creative-and-inspirational-single-page-websites/

Best Single Page Websites
http://www.awwwards.com/websites/single-page/