9/29/08
Homepage thoughts
I seem to get bogged down in the initial choosing of a subject and finally decided on a family website. I’m going to focus on my mother’s family. My mother’s ancestors were the first women doctors in Utah and their story would be of interest to more people that just my family. I’d like to make the homepage friendly to both family and medical historians.
The title would be at the top in a big font and navigation would be just under that with buttons labeled: search, contact us, events, links, family history, contributions to history
A cool, pale pastel would be the background color with black print. I’ve found other colored print and heavy backgrounds to be difficult to read on webpages and hope to make mine easier on the eyes.
A picture of my grandparents would go right under the navigation bar with photos of their four daughters offset to the right and left. In the middle would be a text introduction of two or three sentences. Clicking on the photos would take you to another page specific to the life and family of each person.
Under the intro could be an old photo of the women doctors.
My intention is to create a design that is gentle and symmetrical enough to guide the eye, but not so completely square that it leaves the observer only with the impression of lines and angles.
