Design | 001 | My Site

Ok well here is the current version of my template, the good thing about this style of template is that its easy to modify even in the late stages of coding.



as you can see its them same style as my old template design, ( will upload all that later ) but cleaner, the problem with the other template was it was getting to complicated, people are going to my website to see my content, not the look of my website,

it has all the same aspects of my other site, such as the client log in section.



as you can see it looks the same, with the simple visual bars to tell the client how far along i am in there product.



the red, green, blue on the left navigator are going to be, ever hover colours ( what you see when your cursor enters the area ), or on the page colours ( indicating what page you are currently on ) each section will have a diffrent colour, for example, the portfolio section will hover red, where as the about me will hover blue, just to make the site alittle more interesting.

Research | 001 | Web Design

The style i decided to go with was a simple split page. one side being the navigator the other being the content, this web style has been around along time, however its just only currently being highly used by designers of all fields.





http://www.zukunft.fr/

they style is as simple as it gets, but can be used very dramatically, the reason its such a good use, is because if you are a designer you generally upgrade you website with new content quite often, with a standard html template, you would have to go to every single page E.g ( Index, about, portfolio ) etc to add a new link, with this style all you do is use one page E.g ( Navigator ) and the rest being the normal pages.

the navigator is located on the left side of the website generally, and can be upgraded separately, when you click a link in the navigator, it will only change the content and not modify the navigator page. this means you never have to worry about links again, this of course can be done other-ways, such as server, or setting up a site-map in dream-weaver. but im talking about pure hrml.





http://theluxuryofprotest.com/

Another example above. same style, the only difference is that this one uses java-script expand, collapse columns for her/his content.





http://www.swearwords.com.au/

same concept as the others, however, this one scrolls the content left and right, and links, logos etc are all locked in place.





http://www.efflorescences.org

and lastly another simple side menu, with a menu all so at the top of the page.

this is only a small amount of these style of websites, still the main style are blogs generally for graphic designers since there easy to manage and require little effort to maintain, and comes with build in comment and stats. then next most used is probably flash, designers love to use flash because it allows you to do things html / css carnt.