First Mock Ainsdale Site

Here is the first mock site that I have created for the Ainsdale group project. I wanted to keep the site pretty simple and also clear. I wanted to only use a few colours so that the website didnt have too much going on and clash. The blue colour in the site could basically be exchanged for any other colour and would still go right with the black and white scheme.

New Group Project - Ainsdale Health and Fitness

Last week we had a new group project set. Each group were given a live client for which they had to design a new website for. The client that I am going to be working on is Ainsdale Health and Fitness Club in Southport.

We have been in contact with our client and have already received information and some images that we can use on the site.

Each of us are now going through the process of designing some mock sites. We are then going to decide what features and colours we are going to use.

Essay Done!!

Well today (early hours of Monday) I finished my SPP2 essay reflecting on my development. I tried to keep most of the sections shorter so I could focus on the 'Reflection and analysis on the development of my practise' section as I felt this was the most important.

Twitter Feed for my project.

Well one of the requirements of my project was to have 3 different Flash elemets in my website. One of these i chose to have was a Twitter feed. I wanted to have the different 'tweets' displayed on the screen with the date and time that it was made starting with the most recent. I have done all the code in ActionScript 3.0.

I realise this doesn't work thanks to the security settings on the Google Sites page where it is hosted...it wont allow it to connect to Twitter!! Stupid!! However it works fine when in my website file so i hope it will be okay!!

Flash Objects for my project.

Well for my project I am required to have 3 flash objects embedded in my website. I am going to to exactly this. I have designed and made 2 of my 3 Flash objects now.

I have a simple banner that will go on the homepage that flashes on a loop saying 'Welcome to Glennz'. The other Flash object I have already created is a Twitter feed. This fetches the latest posts and displays them on my homepage. Quite useful!!

The other object i will have is a flash photo gallery displaying my clients design works. I have left this till last as it is probably the easiest of the 3 to get working. Anyway...here is my simple side banner.

Social Network Icons For My Project

For my website I am going to have links to the different social networks that my client uses. These being Facebook and Twitter. I have also created one for the RSS feed of the Blog.

Logo For My Project

This is the Logo that I will be using for my site. I have used the current logo and changed the colour to fit my website colour scheme.

Original Wireframes

Again I'm really late in uploading these hand-drawn wireframes but though I might as well put them up there to show how my designs will be progressing.

Flash Banner

Website Wire frame

Well its a bit late but i'm uploading my original wireframes and mocksites that i have created to base my website on. I think both look quite good and have positives and negatives in their own way.

I like the layout of both the sites but I feel that the first mocksite is a bit limited in what can be displayed on each page. This is because the page is dominated by the slideshow of design work. The second website I have designed I think looks quite professional and also has more potential when changing the design.

I am going to start making the CSS for both of these and see which i prefer. I am hoping the two don't take long to layout and render so I can spend more time making my PHP (which i am very worried about) and my Flash elements.