Sorry I've been away for a while guys! I've been trying to juggle school work as well as preparing for the big wedding day!
I do have an update for those interested which is the restart of projectini! I've put together a design and uploaded a prototype of the site here. Now you may be asking a couple of questions in regards to why I chose this design.
Personally, I felt keeping it simple and likable are two unique UX approaches. Starting from the top up, You can see I chose my logo to be a simplistic martini glass with an olive. The reason I like this logo is because it's simple and it says to me "Keep it Classy!" which will be my overall motto with this site. I chose the menu to be on the top right as basic archetypes suggests menus are often located on the top of the content and decided to go against the grain with a large (fluid) background image.
Why did I go with a large background image? The answer is simple: The Audience. My website is targeted at developers and designers who have a decent internet connection. This is because the scrum tools I'm advertising are "Internet Heavy" and would be of no benefit to someone logging in with a DSL connection. I've even contemplated timing out the page if their speed isn't up to par but decided against it due to visibility implications. I'm still working on the tables that hold the wording and the contents as I feel they are just a tad mellow. I may just have large divs move up and down from the bottom instead of trying to integrate text with that noisy background image.
Oh well, I feel like this is definitely moving somewhere for the better!
I do have an update for those interested which is the restart of projectini! I've put together a design and uploaded a prototype of the site here. Now you may be asking a couple of questions in regards to why I chose this design.
Personally, I felt keeping it simple and likable are two unique UX approaches. Starting from the top up, You can see I chose my logo to be a simplistic martini glass with an olive. The reason I like this logo is because it's simple and it says to me "Keep it Classy!" which will be my overall motto with this site. I chose the menu to be on the top right as basic archetypes suggests menus are often located on the top of the content and decided to go against the grain with a large (fluid) background image.
Why did I go with a large background image? The answer is simple: The Audience. My website is targeted at developers and designers who have a decent internet connection. This is because the scrum tools I'm advertising are "Internet Heavy" and would be of no benefit to someone logging in with a DSL connection. I've even contemplated timing out the page if their speed isn't up to par but decided against it due to visibility implications. I'm still working on the tables that hold the wording and the contents as I feel they are just a tad mellow. I may just have large divs move up and down from the bottom instead of trying to integrate text with that noisy background image.
Oh well, I feel like this is definitely moving somewhere for the better!