http://www.thenetweaver.com ~ went live
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At last it happened, http://www.thenetweaver.com went live.
More work ahead !!
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TheNetweaver Logo Design
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The NetWeaver Final Logo
I finished designing the logo for TheNetweaver today. Click on the image to enlarge. The website design is ready too. Coding starts tomorrow.
Building a Wordpress theme
Filed under: Creative, Design and CSS, Thenetweaver Related, Thoughts
In coming days I will try to build a Wordpress theme that will work as the skin for a website.
I started reading about it today and the most helpful resource comes from the Wordpress site itself. Here is the link to read.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout
There are other tons of resources on the net. However it is not that easy as it seems, specially when you are out of touch in PHP for so long. Hopefully I should be able to come up with a plan soon.
Fingers crossed !!
Cheers ~
Bis
Another Design completed | Web 2.0 based
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Web 2.0 based design
The designs can be found here.
I finished another design for a close friend of mine. This one is a free project for a startup based in Germany. I have sent the design to the team and awaiting a response. I hope that they will like it and that it will solve their purpose. The problem with startups is that you cannot be too experimental, with colors and such. They need to hit the market from day one and more conventional approach is preferred.
- Lots of importance to whitespace is intended. The darker BG is to make the whitespace pop.
- The Headline sizes have been carefully chosen to rank the items by importance.
- The Flash piece is envisioned to be rotating between 4 or 5 slides alongwith the text. So each slide will have it’s own text and Graphic.
- The font I have chosen is “Georgia”. In a recent survey, it was found that Sans fonts especially Georgia leaves a lasting imprint on the readers mind.
- The navigation is simple yet very clear so as not to confuse users. It is envisioned that the nav will drop down opening it’s own list
- I have included two boxes at the bottom and have repeated these boxes in the interior page. However these boxes can be changed according to your needs.
- I have followed the Web 2.0 standards while designing this site. That should explain the reason for using icons. Again a lasting imprint to the user.
New Design | Apr 17th 2009
Filed under: Creative, Design and CSS, PhotoBlog, Thenetweaver Related, Thoughts
So I was working on a new design yesterday and today, based on a few guidelines by our Editor in Chief and our Creative director.
The idea is to create a website which relates to “Social Networking” and wraps around our publication’s “News” content. So we wanted to create a “Social Networking” site which is “News” driven. Interesting huh ? !!
It’s not easy to satisfy people who are above you, and more so when these people know a lot about their subject. Both of these two people are extremely talented and it is my first time dealing with the former who is well known to have incub-ed CQ – congressional quarterly. The second person, my direct boss is very thorough in his subject which ranges from movie production to the nitty grittys of magazine production and design. Truely speaking I consider myself to be very lucky to be in touch with this versatile talent.
And then there is my all-time-friend-and-critique who goes by the name “Debarati” and incidentally happens to be my wife.
This is the design in debate
So after doing the design and having passed the initial round of debate with Jeff and David and selling them my ideas I sent out the design to Deb and this is what she said.
debaratibhatt (2:08:07 PM): but remember, someone who is handicapped will not get it
debaratibhatt (2:08:24 PM): color coding is not at all 508 compliant
biswarup99 (2:08:27 PM): whats an option ?
debaratibhatt (2:08:54 PM): will go over this in the weekend, if you can wait
biswarup99 (2:09:04 PM): i know .. but 98 percent of our readers will use this maybe we can use descriptions while coding
biswarup99 (2:09:05 PM): ok
debaratibhatt (2:09:46 PM): yes you can, but remember 48 percent is handicapped color wise
biswarup99 (2:09:58 PM): k
debaratibhatt (2:10:07 PM): not only blind fall in this category
biswarup99 (2:10:17 PM): hmm
debaratibhatt (2:10:19 PM): also color blind people are considered
debaratibhatt (2:10:22 PM): lol
biswarup99 (2:10:25 PM): yeah
biswarup99 (2:10:34 PM): well .. we’ll see
debaratibhatt (2:10:36 PM): blue and green is confusing to many
debaratibhatt (2:10:50 PM): yeah, unless your company pesters on these
biswarup99 (2:11:05 PM): which i think they will
debaratibhatt (2:11:30 PM): but you should be aware of all these while designing, and it’s added advantage for you too
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…………. And I agree 100%. She sent me two links which I went through, and after careful consideration I am pretty convinced that the design needs to be changed, which means I will have to re-sell my concept to the big two. Ah Well !! That’s the life of a designer, and I Love it big time.
Here are the two links that Deb sent me, if anybody out there is interested to know more about usability and accessibility as regards to Web design and Development.
http://www.webaim.org/standards/508/checklist
http://www.webaim.org/articles/visual/colorblind.php
I am currently studying more and more on “Accessibility in Web Design” and will come back to you with a post on what I learn soon. Thanks Deb for helping me out on this one !!
Cheers
Bis.