More Designing

I have been working on the Portfolio pages but i am slightly stuck as now i am waiting for the images of work to include in the portfolio. I have however been experimenting on ways to display the work. The portfolio is going to work in two stages:

1. The user will click on the portfolio section and be lead to a page that will display one of the three main topics (logo design, website design and print and literature). This first page will display a little information on that topic. For example if it was the print and literature section it would explain what sort of work would come under this. Then the user has the option to pick sub categories from print and literature:

Magazines

Flyers/Leaflets

Stationery

Display

Packaging

This makes the website a lot easier for the user to navigate around. My client would like the portfolio set out this way because clients that come to look at the portfolio work can then quickly and efficiently find what they are looking for without having to browse through work that is not related to what they want. This would then take the user to another page which will display all the appropriate work designed by GS2.

Experimenting with the Navigation

I have been experimenting with different navigation options in illustrator.

Client Project- Design and layout.

I have now begun designing some ideas for my clients new website. In the proposal i have pointed out that they would like the website to be very simple and clean. As there will be so much content on the portfolio section my client has askedfor the other sections to be quite basic so the pages are not overcrowded.

An example of a website my client really likes is the Apple Mac website. He has asked for my design to have the same sort of layout with a navigation at the top, a bold banner in the middle and at the bottom of the page some more direct links to the portfolio section as it is the most important part of the whole website. He wants potential clients to be able to find the portfolio very easily and so would like more than one link to it! He has also mention that he would like a contact button on every page of the website so people dont have to look for it.

At the moment i am in the process of changing the different navigation boxes. I have tried to stick to the same colour scheme that GS2 already have on their current website as it is carried on throughout the design on business cards, letterheads etc. The orange is part of the companies identity so is important to my client that it stays throughout the design. whilst talking to my client we have divided the portfolio into three main sections; Logo design, printed literature and website design. My client is currently selecting the work that he would like to be included in the website for each section.