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For our next site i plan on writing about movies and reviewing them. I enjoy attending movies but it’s hard on deciding if the movie is worth seeing. Besides my home page I  plan on having a good review page, a bad review page, a page featuring new movie previews, and finally a contact page. I’ll most likely pick my own color scheme. I’d like to have the site resemble Rotten Tomatoes, another movie review site. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ .  Or a mix of RT and the ESPN site which has a great design http://espn.go.com/ .

• I am going to create a website for the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center
• I’m working on a PR campaign for the HCWC and I personally support their cause.
  I want to spread awareness of domestic abuse as much as possible.
• I will have a home page and include 4 other pages on the website.
  1) A Services page, that lists services.
  2) An About page, with important information about the organization.
  3) Donations page
  4) A Remember page- stories of local domestic abuse victims, survivors of domestic abuse etc.
• This organization does already have a color scheme of purple and navy blue, and hunter green.
  The purple represents domestic abuse, and will be the main color on the stylesheet.
• I would like my site to look similar to the foodsense.is website
  

I have a strange obsession with dogs, particularly those poor furbabies without a home stuck in an over-crowded shelter. My site will be dedicated to finding homes for dogs in local shelters(San Antonio to Austin but with a bigger focus on Hays County.) Most shelters have their own website but due to lack of funding they don’t usually have current information.

Other than the home page, the site will have a “Pet of the Week” page featuring a new puppy and its adoption info every week, a “Contact your local shelter page”, a “Not ready to adopt?” page with ways to help by volunteering and donations, and I think it would be really cool to have a “Success story” page of recently adopted dogs, but I do not know how realistic it would be to keep up with. I’ve also thought of having a page dedicated to my pup, Jacks, because he was the inspiration for this and I love showing him off.

I do not have a color scheme in mind yet but want something neutral. Pale yellow and gray, maybe? I also couldn’t really find any inspiration from another site. I’ve been on the computer a lot the past few days researching for other things and they’re all starting to look the same.

I’m a member of the Texas State Fencing Club, but we don’t currently have a website, so I’m going to make a website for the club. Besides the homepage, there will be a page for how to join the club, a contact page, a gallery page, and a tournament page for upcoming tournaments and outside tournaments that members might be interested in. I might also add a couple of other pages: a resources page that shows different things like places to buy gear and videos to watch and also a history page for learning more about the club.

The club’s logo is a skull with the three fencing weapons behind it. The logo is white, black, maroon, and gold, so I’ll be using those colors.

I like CBS’s website layout: http://www.cbs.com/. It’s similar to how I want my homepage, with a horizontal navigation and slideshow gallery below that.

I’m choosing to write my new blog about record collecting and local music shops in the Hays County/Austin/San Antonio areas. Music is something I’m really passionate about, and I just get really hyped about records. I love that it’s an old-school format with such a new, enthusiastic cult following. Besides my homepage, I’m planning to have a music review page, an interview page with store owners or fellow collectors (kind of like a “what’s in my bag” thing), updates on music festivals/shows, and maybe like a community forum where I’d allow people to contribute what artists they like to listen/collect. Debates and such. I don’t have a color scheme yet but it will be of my choosing. Wish me luck!

I really like Pitchfork‘s site design. Hopefully I can emulate that into mine.

The topic I will be covering is hunting for this next website. My dad’s hobby is hunting and he came to visit me this weekend and when I told him about this assignment he gave me the idea. Besides the home page, I will have a page on what you can hunt, types of ammo and guns or bows needed/ can get, where in Texas can you hunt, Gun training, and apparell. The color scheme for hunting is camoflauge, so shades of green and brown.

http://www.basspro.com/Hunting/_/T-12425000000

Discuss what you like most about the design, as well as what you think could be improved.

From a user experience, is the site easy to navigate?

Does it have quality content? Why do you visit this site? Is it for the design, or for the content?

I  really enjoy the Austin City Limits Music Festival webpage.

The color scheme and the design are relatively simple and are uniform throughout the website.

The front page is a bit overwhelming as you scroll down. Info Overload.

It is organized, inviting, intriguing, and informative.

I visit the site for both its design and its content.

You come for the content, and stay for the design.

www.aclfestival.com