This is my mock up for a non-profit farm that my web 2 class is doing a site redesign for. It’s a local historic farm in Parma, oh. I decided to go with the rustic look, I also thought a simple navigation would be good for the site’s audience. I built this mock up using Adobe Fireworks cs4 and PhotoShop cs4
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Today in class we talked about buckets and wireframeing. This is where we come up with any and all ideas for a site’s content. Any widgets, inforamtion, contacts, links, content, etc, we write down in a list. No idea is too much or too out there, we’ll eventually condense down to what really matters and what can be done away with. From there we put it in “buckets”, not literally although that could be amusing. We figure out our catagories for navigation, like home, about, contact, or what have you and wite them on a dry earse board.
After that we take our ideas for content and go down the list figuring out what can be gotten rid of, and in which catagory the rest can go into. Now we have a rough idea of what we need to put in (more…)