Time and Confusion - DP: Website design - Dreamweaver

Now this was the brief I was dreading. My mind does not work in numbers and calculations so I think I was definitely leaving it hoping it would go away (does not happen).

I have a general idea of how I want this to look. Sleek and sophisticated. Something that is easy to use, nice to look at and informative. Something that will give 'Love 4 Design' some justice and make people want to employ us as a design company.

A website for a graphic designer should be designed by that designer. A client would look at it a bit strangely if they had nothing to do with the design process.

A good graphic designer has to have a well designed website.

The colour scheme

This came very easily. The starting point being the logo.

Black

White

Red

Shades of grey

I think this gives us a very corporate feel. Sophisticated and simple. Easily readable and legible.

I have also decided to use images for the main bulk of the content of the website as I would like to use the font 'Champagne and Limousines' and it is not in the list of web friendly fonts.

First of all, I found a website on the internet that I was going to draw inspiration from.

This was the one I chose, it is simple and to the point... at the same time as looking stylish and professional.

I then started to draw out some grids of how I was going to split up my page.

This was tricky and took me several attempts.

A couple of attempts at splitting it up into columns and rows...

The first asset... the logo.

After I had sorted out all the spacing, I went about making my buttons. Each word, when scrolled over turns red to go with the colour scheme. I have also entered copyright and contact details at the bottom of the page.

I then linked up all the pages so they worked as a proper website.

The blank template page.