Project 7:
Come up with an idea for a website and write a 1‐2 page push for your idea. Included in your paper should be a general layout (image) done either in Photoshop, some other application, or from a hand‐drawn sketch showing how the website might be laid out in terms of visual design.
This can almost be considered the first step toward your final project as you will be building off of this design for your final project.
Website Proposal
Project 7:
Come up with an idea for a website and write a 1‐2 page push for your idea. Included in your paper should be a general layout (image) done either in Photoshop, some other application, or from a hand‐drawn sketch showing how the website might be laid out in terms of visual design.
This can almost be considered the first step toward your final project as you will be building off of this design for your final project.
For my final project, I will be creating a website to feature family photos, from both my parents’ sides of the family. My maternal grandmother was a photography buff (we called her the Colorado Springs Flasher), and we have thousands of her family photographs. Other members of her family have requested copies of the photos, which would be expensive and time-consuming to produce, so I am planning on placing this site on my current site, www.binkles.net, to facilitate access to the photos. In addition, we have had a lot more contact with my father’s cousins and their families, so I would like to include their side of the family tree as well. I will request permission from each family member to include him/her in the photos and information. If there are many refusals, I will pursue the option of creating the site on a DVD, and distribute them to the family members.
Site Wireframe
The basic layout of the site will follow a standard format of header at the top, navigation on the left, and a footer on the bottom, leaving the remaining content area for family member information and photographs.
The navigation on the left will include links to each family name, with its family tree on the linked pages. Each subpage will then contain links to photos of each family member, as well as a link for group photos.
Figure 1: Site Wireframe
Site Mockup
The site uses the Sandalwood Adobe Swatch Exchange color scheme, with various filters applied to each element, giving it a three-dimensional effect. The header for all pages in the site will be a mosaic of black-and-white photos from various branches of the family. The site title is “Stone-Temple-Obermeyer Photos” – and yes, the “Stone” and “Temple” names are real; my mother’s maiden name was Stone; her mother’s was Temple.
Figure 2: Site Mockup