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Fun Fact: When I was in high school, I made a website that
was basically nothing but beveled/embossed images. It's
apparently an addiction I've never kicked. |
After taking Meg's initial sketch, we came up with.... this. I don't even know what to say about it; not one of our better designs. You can see the actual current layout in there, if in a rough state. The header is obviously completely different; a bit newsletter-y in all honesty. It has the upper and lower bars, Bob & Bonnie, links to GoodSearch, etc., the United Way & CFC banner, and the links to other adoption websites that we post our pets to. We wanted to have a solid header and footer that would appear on every page, and this is a start. We were trying to produce a glass-like effect on the two red bars, which we didn't manage to accomplish. From this version, the only things that made it onto the final website were Bob & Bonnie and the United Way/CFC banner.
As far as the content is concerned, the featured pets column may as well be empty. The announcements section is pretty close to finished. It's mostly just missing some of the coloring. The Events section isn't even a section at this point, just a banner and links to the adoption schedules.
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Fun Fact: The Bob & Bonnie images were extracted pretty roughly
and have never been cleaned up. Why? Laziness mostly. |
Here we cleaned up the header a little bit. Lost the ridiculous font and added some more base navigation. The significant change is the addition of the content to the Feature Pets column. We liked the idea of a short blurb stating what HART actually does. That text was part of the About HART section on the previous website, but it seems appropriate to not make a user click through to figure out what you're about. Since most people are visiting the website to actually adopt a dog or cat, we wanted to feature links to our major sections. You may notice a link to a "Precious Pets Ad." HART used to feature a pet in a local newspaper for a while, until it became incredibly expensive. We eventually replaced this link with one to a page listing our pets that have special needs. Seemed like a better use of the space.
