Website Woes
So having decided the last website design is not really for me I have spent much time on new ideas of which most are crap! I need help - if you know of any inspiring sites please let me know.
From some advice I got from a couple of you guys I have been trying to eliminate the 'boxes' from my site layout. Obviously I am Not going for a cluttered site with no room to breath, However, I keep coming back to the fact that a gridded layout is the easiest, clearest, cleanest and most organised way of creating the site if it is to work how I want it to. Feel free to disagree. I need to be able to add more designs to the site as I go along as well as making it easy for viewers to see all the designs/shirts and navigate further to be able to buy them. So with that in mind and many failed ideas behind me I have tried the following idea. Please let me know what you think.
The idea here is to use the colours I've decided on for my brand (black, grey, and a little hot pink) and use bold black and white photos of the actual stencils I'll be using to create the shirts. When the viewer rolls over the photos they will switch to a coloured version of the full design as it would appear on a shirt (as above where you can see the bang bang bang design). Then they could click that to be taken to a more detailed page about that shirt with the option to buy. This is a rough layout and I would like to make the final if I chose to pursue it a lot rougher with a more hand-made feel and obviously navigatinional buttons in the top bar and exploit the black and whites more in the photos. Colour comes into the site as the user rolls around it.
From some advice I got from a couple of you guys I have been trying to eliminate the 'boxes' from my site layout. Obviously I am Not going for a cluttered site with no room to breath, However, I keep coming back to the fact that a gridded layout is the easiest, clearest, cleanest and most organised way of creating the site if it is to work how I want it to. Feel free to disagree. I need to be able to add more designs to the site as I go along as well as making it easy for viewers to see all the designs/shirts and navigate further to be able to buy them. So with that in mind and many failed ideas behind me I have tried the following idea. Please let me know what you think.
The idea here is to use the colours I've decided on for my brand (black, grey, and a little hot pink) and use bold black and white photos of the actual stencils I'll be using to create the shirts. When the viewer rolls over the photos they will switch to a coloured version of the full design as it would appear on a shirt (as above where you can see the bang bang bang design). Then they could click that to be taken to a more detailed page about that shirt with the option to buy. This is a rough layout and I would like to make the final if I chose to pursue it a lot rougher with a more hand-made feel and obviously navigatinional buttons in the top bar and exploit the black and whites more in the photos. Colour comes into the site as the user rolls around it.
posted by Claire at 1:07 AM
2 Comments:
I like it and if you wanna be selling t shirts the ease of use of the site may be (dare i say it) a more important factor to customers than the site design.. I love that you are a perfectionist!
I really like the photos of the actual stencils and I think it will look excellent once it is a little rougher and hand made
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