Hi John and everyone,
I appreciate that the design is heading in the direction of
the design
of the American Hemerocallis Society's web site: http://
www.daylilies.org/
People may want to re-check out the Daylily page, as their website
designer
Tim Fehr has done even more remarkable things with the site he's
designed.
I wasn't sure if you were trying to exhibit different design
elements
between the three samples you provided, as all three looked pretty
much the
same, except that the colors of the surrounding background were
different.
I'm sure different people are going to pick different colors as their
favorite background.
One thing that I see that I suggest be corrected, is script
language
which will control the height and width sizing, so that it will
automatically re-size to the browser resolution size of whatever
monitor
being used on the viewer's screen. I have my browser set to 1024
x 768
pixels, and I know many who run it at an even higher resolution,
such as
1280x1024, and yet others who use the older lower resolution, 800 x
600.
Depending on the resolution, the design can exhibit a very wide
border,
about 1 < inches of a white border on each side of 2 of them in my
case, and
I kind of find that annoying. It is less noticeable in the green
background
because it is a full green background. Older technology and web
designs
didn't pay much attention to this feature, but it is something that
can be
accounted for today to accommodate many different sizes of monitors
and
different resolutions selected by users on the screens.
An example of java script language which will detect monitor
sizes is:
width =
parseInt(document.documentElement.clientWidth);
height =
parseInt(document.documentElement.clientHeight);
Another consideration is whether this design is going to carry
through
other linked pages, and whether viewers are going to print pages
(people
print web pages all the time). Having a dark background and
design colors
leaning towards the darker tones means that viewers are going to be
using up
more toner on their printers to print them, and I'm all for being
considerate of toner use of viewers' printers. The purple and green
designs
are in that category, and so I wish they could be toned down a
whole lot for
that reason. Additionally, although purple is a color I love, I
suspect it
is going to clash with some photography that may be exhibited with
the AIS
website.
You'll note that Tim Fehr has specifically chosen a base
neutral color
(gray, which will not contrast with other colors), and has his
tones of gray
to be on the lighter side as well. (He has toned down his
background color
from a previous version he did which was darker)
It is exciting to see progress towards a new design; thank you
and
everyone for the efforts to get this far.
Kitty Loberg
Calif.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John I Jones" <jijones@usjoneses.com>
To: <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:00 PM
Subject: [AISdiscuss] Website Candidates
Below are some links to possible designs for the new home page for
the AIS website. Try not to be concerned about the particular irises
that were used for the various graphic elements. They can be easily
changes according to what we want. We just grabbed some to use as
representative placeholders.
The center section will be a window into a changing list of irises
that will change everytime someone selects "Reload" or comes back to
the page. There will also be "Next" and "Previous" buttons to srcoll
through the library of pictures. I do not want to have an automatic
slide show because that can load up a slow internet connection when
people don't want that.
The section at the bottom of the page is meant to be an "Article/
Story of the Month" and we will need lots of authors and ideas for
this area.
What is important is the top level division of information. Are the
categories the right ones? Is the wording right? What about the fonts
we used? The graphics and shapes? The background?
The categories are:
Growing Irises: Cultural information on all the various
classifications (lots of content to create here), links to local
Regions\Societies. Links to sources (What else?)
About the AIS: Some of our history, what we do, mission, benefits
(What else?) Conventions, meetings
AIS Members: Links to a page that has some public information and a
button to go the Members Only section (when we have one). News and
announcements, Information central, Conventions, meetings (What
else?)
AIS Board: AIS board contacts, related files, minutes etc (What
else?)
There will be duplicated links in several of the categories because
multiple constituencies need the same information and there is no
sense in having the same information in multiple places when the same
page can be referenced from multiple places.
http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-comp-A.4.html
http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-comp-B.4.html
http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-comp-D.2.html
So what thoughts do you have?
Thanks
John
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