ARTM2210 Intro to Web Design

Just another Intro to… site

Monthly Review 2

I chose a wedding page. The color scheme is a combination of gray, black and white, with a touch of gold at points. The gray color is used for the top border with tabs saying, “Our Story”, “Gallery”, “Bridal Party”, “Festivities”, “Registry”, “Travel”, “To Do/To Eat”, “Add to Our Story.” The black is used for some sections to darken the background whether it is a picture or just the plain color. When black is the background, then the text is white therefore, the text can stand out from the background. The same thing happens when white becomes the background. The page used nice simple colors and I think that it makes the page easier to look at and not have it become chaotic.

The navigation of the site is pretty interesting. Logically it moves up and down, but there’s more to it. The first thing you see from the site is a picture of the couple as the background and they have their initials and date of the wedding. Once you want to see more you can scroll down, but the next page comes from the bottom to the top. Either you can click on the tabs from the top or just scroll down and have the page sweep from the bottom and transform into the next page. Once you get to the next page you can then scroll from left to right to see what’s in that page. The page basically becomes a slideshow showing what is in that specific page.

The design element of the whole website is yet again simple. Just like with the color scheme, the design of the page concentrates on one or two text fonts, and there really isn’t much design for each page. Keeping everything simple definitely helps the reader make it easy to read and understand what each page has in it. Nothing pops out of the pages therefore the reader will not be shocked with reading anything. The page, like I said before is very simple, so the reader will not become overwhelmed with reading a wedding website. Lastly, I think the website is designed every well. It is unique with having the pages scroll from the bottom to the top. I assume that their color scheme that they use is the same colors that they incorporate in the actual wedding. The website is inviting with showing everyone their story from the every beginning to their wedding seeing their excitement for that BIG DAY.