Link #1: http://jvavrah We are able to th.wordpress.com/
I really liked the layout of this blog. The size of the pictures is a perfect size for viewing. It's not too small, and it's not too big (for people with smaller monitors). It would be cool if our digital portfolio website had this feature on each category of the portfolio. For example, if somebody had a portfolio with the categories art, music, and language arts, each page of the portfolio could have a blog like this one. Viewers of the portfolio could be directed to a home page that included all three categories, and when they click the hyperlinks on the home page, they could be directed to a blog so they could easily navigate the poster's work by date posted.
Link #2: http://alexiscoronasdp.weebly.com/
I thought the home page was really cool on this site. It's very welcoming and makes me want to explore the website further. I would like to use the idea of using square tiles with photographs on them, but change it a little bit. Instead of having square tiles on the home page that are irrelevant to the rest of the site, we could have photographs with text on them that link to pages of the site. So to go back to our example, we would have ten photographs on the homepage. Three of the ten photographs would have text on them which would be art, music, and language arts. Each of the three tiles would link to another page of the site.
Link #3: https://sites.google.com/a/hightechhigh.org/aclay-s-d-p/9th-grade/humanities
My favorite part of this website is the left sidebar that contains links to each page of the portfolio. I like this component of the website because it makes navigating each individual page of the portfolio incredibly easy. It makes it possible to find any page of the portfolio from ninth grade to twelfth grade all on the same page. The sidebar is in the same location on every page of the site, and you don't need to hover over any text to get to where you need to go.
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If the blog page of the first, the picture tiles and good design of the second, and the sidebar of the third were combined, our website would be very a very visually appealing and easy to navigate, things which each of the sites lack on their own.
Hey Stewart...great insight on the DP's you reviewed...I hope seeing a few sample of what works and what doesn't work narrows your focus on the design. Now, let's see if you can mock somethings up...maybe wireframe a design or rough-out a concept...can't wait to see what you come up with...peace!
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