The Orange Album

Design

The design elements in this site are very simple. The contrast is kept to a minimum, each page is attempting to convey a low-key situation, where the text and content is most important. The only contrasting is that of the pictures. The repetition is quite prominent in this site since there are so many pages (10 total). The design report is three pages with the same style sheet, and the rest of the site shares text size and font, column width, and navigational bar color. The alignment is a bit tricky in this site, the sidebar is right-adjusted, while the headers in the div content are centered, and the text in the paragraph tags in the content are all left adjusted. The proximity is pretty effective, a lot of white space is utilized for the text in the content area, since the outer two sides are filled with colors. There is a good amount of spacing between pargraphs and a decent line height as well. The colors for text (links and header) are the same on the pages, and are colors that match or highlight aspects of the pictures. The color of the navigational bar was decided after a battle between many colors. It was chosen because it still conveys brightness and interesting tone, while not being too boring. It also ties the album together (my string, if you will) and works well with all the chosen images.

The entire site originally was inspired by this CSS Zen Garden design, though it turned out much differently. It is a great final product, and I'm happy with the simplicity of it and glad that it is complete.

-Nancy A. Finney