Content: Provisional web page design #1 Client: Gavin Freeguard/The Orwell Prize Submitted by: Rob Bowker Tel: 07801 685981 e-mail: bowkerrob@gmail.com Notes Hi Gavin, the following is a pretty slavish presentation of your current homepage (inserted on page 2 for quick reference), but informed by your brief. I would suggest that 17 main menu items (links propagating through all pages) might be a few too many for a casual visitor to easily assimilate. I wonder if you had considered placing award-specific links (the nitty-gritty) on an Awards homepage and/ or placing those links as a drop-down menu from the horizontal menu beneath the banner. This would free space for celebrating the current three or four award winners on the homepage – a thumbnail, the category and their names – so making the site seem more up-to-date and relevant. I thnik using a crumbtrail would help the user to navigate. A dateline gives the sense that the site is relavent and up-to-date. A social bookmarking feature such as Addthis would be an easy addition to make and encourage users to easily share your pages, bringing in more traffic. Promoting your “community” presences, for example on Facebook, will present the Prize in a new light and be attractive to your visitors. Also, the blog deserves more prominence. After the awards themselves, this is a really captivating website worth shouting about more. I think the browny maroon colour combined with black and white photos adds to a slightly dusty, old fashioned feel to the current materials. This is compounded in some print uses by ‘ghosting’ panels over images for text to go on. Here, I have offered a brighter palette to gauge reaction. I haven’t annotated the following options, but gladly will if there’s anything unclear. All the best for now, Rob
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Content: Provisional web page design #2 Client: Gavin Freeguard/The Orwell Prize Submitted by: Rob Bowker Tel: 07801 685981 e-mail: bowkerrob@gmail.com Notes The following treatment comes from the ruled paper used in some examples of Orwell’s writing on the site. A bit obvious and a clichÊ but I worked it up to see if any of the intimacy of the writing experience survived the treatment. It sort of does, I think. Bringing words to life: you could consider some movement on the page with a simple ticker-tape line, something like this: http://robbowker.blogspot.com/2010/07/doublethink-means-power-of-holding-two.html
...but less crudely executed.
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