Website Design

Here's the final result for my website design. I actually created the sketches without stopping to think about how I would carry the ideas out, so I was kind of flying by the seat of my pants in certain ways, but I figured out how to at least approximate all the ideas I sketched out, even though there were a few things I wish I could have figured out how to do better.

                        Here's the homepage. Please click to enlarge on each image below

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                                                          Here's the About page:

 

 And here's the Contact page:

Website Design Sketches

I set up the site as a design portfolio to showcase my (mostly hypothetical) work. Here's a sketch for the homepage. I envisioned the foreground being a garden with light bulbs growing out of it. Each bulb would have the name of a different piece of design work I've done, and you'd click on it to see that piece. For some I used the actual projects we've done in class, the rest I made up. The background would be a verdant scene with grass, bushes, and trees, and you'd click on the trees to get my resume page, "about" page, and contact page. Click the image to see it at a reasonable size. To be frank, I have no idea how well I can pull of this idea or the other ones below, but I guess we'll find out!

Below is my sketch for the design of the About page. Pretty simple, just using the image of an open book, with my biographical info written across the pages. Click the image to enlarge.

Finally, below is the sketch of my design for the Contact page. A medium-size photo of me on the side, my social media links across the top, and contact info underneath, all superimposed over an image of an old-school rotary dial telephone. As always, please click the image to see it properly.