If you’ve been here before, you will probably know that I am working at the moment (among other things) on a site for a Costa Blanca dental clinic.
Since I spend a fair amount of time commenting on other Web sites, and laying down the law about site design, it seems only fair to let you see some of my initial designs. They are not published—and won’t be, in their present form—but you can see them online for a while.
They all use various shades of a greenish blue, since that is what the client defined as a “corporate colour.†The first design is the most assertive, using the blue in a background gradient. The second design includes both a logo with the outline of the Peñon d’Ifach, and a photo of the Peñon itself. (The client mentioned that he might like something like this on the site, to associate the clinic with Calpe.) Its yellow titling uses CSS relative positioning to create what I think is an elegant effect.
The third design is the one the client preferred. However, it uses very little screen real estate, and there are a lot of words to go on the site. So I adapted it to make navigation easier, and introduced some nifty DHTML to have text pop up in place of other text. (Let your mouse rest on any of the main menu options.) With a token bit of Flash—as an indication of what was possible—that became the fourth design.
Comments—approving, improving or savage—are all welcome.
