Its coming along.

Ive been working with my CSS for a while now, and it is really coming along. We got a few pictures and a bio from Clive, which made me change some of my initial plans. Ive changed the header and navbar font to fit better with the font on the building its self. Ive gone from Harabara (http://www.dafont.com/harabara.font) to COUTURE Bold (http://www.dafont.com/couture.font). I am now playing around with different styles to get this working. HOPEFULLY he will send us a logo, because then I can work around that. Below is a picture of the index with that I have so far..!

Mock up two

Mock up one.

Fonts

Ive been looking around on the internet for effective, simple fonts that look good with what I have in mind. After a long time scrolling through Dafont, i found this font called Harabara

I like this because it is simple, but pretty classy at the same time.

For the website body font, i needed a web friendly font, and for that I went to google webfonts.Having chosen my heading font, I wanted one that fitted well with Harabara, and I found one called Doppio One.

Colour scheme idea.

We asked the client about the colours that they wanted in this website, and they said "Red, black and white are our standard colour scheme" So I put together this one. There is a white at the end of this one, but It won't show up on this.

Content brainstorm.

Here is a very brief brainstorm for the pages I will need for this site. As the client doesn't want a lot out of this site, there are limited pages, as they wanted.

Domestic appliances - Other websites.

Because I am making a website for a domestic appliances company, I have decided to look at websites that currently stock those things, to see if there is a popular theme with them, and whether they all stick to some kind of rule. So, I first looked at the Bosch website.

This site is very white, and very clean. Everything seems to be alligned right. This may be because people who are shopping on this site, want clean and orderly because it is for their home. The navigation was pretty simple, you could get mostley everywhere from the index page, and the nav bar being blue helps it stand out from the rest of the white.

The next site I looked at was Rapid, in Liverpool.

Again, you can see that white is used a lot, and the parts that they want you to see instantly, are a very stand out colour. Having the header dark, and the navigation a different colour helps the customer to see where it is they are going, because this isn't a kind of website you could just sit and browse at 4 in the morning because you can't be bothered to go to bed, you come on a site like this because you want something specific, and a well laid out navigation bar can help you achieve what it is you are looking for.

Lastley, I looked at Gillamans.

It is the same story here it seemed. White content, with a stricking navigation bar.


This has definietly helped me start to formulate a plan for my own site, given the nature of what is going to be put on the site, and what the target audience will be looking for.