Site Layout

The layout for my site is not yet set in stone as I am always changing my the .psd of my draft whenever I find something I like or think I can make better.

At this stage my site layout will contain:

• Navigation Banner with all major links at the top
  
• Followed by other links across the left hand side
• The main content will be directly below the navigation banner
• Affiliates and links to other sites on the right hand side.
• With a Footer of some kind at the bottom of the page
  

Useful Web Design Tool Kit

I found this website which lets you download all the browser frames for different OS for free,
might save people a bit of time.

http://www.webdesignerstoolkit.com/

Design References

5 Sites:

http://deviantart.com

• Search bar and infinite source of inspiration

http://www.soundwavefestival.com

• Simplistic and easyNavigation

http://www.vegaone.de/highdefinition/

• Exciting webpage with extremley energetic graphic

http://www.jasonyapp.com/main.html

• Customized font, also the font size and style would be simple arial or verdana that is tidy and easy to read

http://indieblips.dailyradar.com/video/white_lies_farewell_to_the_fairground/

• Integrated YouTube video in the website, visible in soundwave website aswell

At this stage I am thinking I will intergrate mostly graphics to achieve the look I want, but I think I will need to incorporate CSS styles to help me with this.


7 Characteristics:

• Attractive search field

• Stylish Fonts: such as the graphic font on this page.

• Simple Navigation

• Common Theme

• High quality vector graphics

• Integrated video

• Appropriate and well organised content
  

• Maybe CSS style sheet? (Still investigating)

Music festival chosen

The music festival I have chosen is stonefest:

http://www.stonefest.com.au/main.html

I think the website is simple with a good navigation, but as others have already pointed out in their blogs, needs some spicing up.

I aim to create an aesthetically appealing using graphics for the design for my web design.

Hi

First post on my blog