Nearly There!!!

Last night I worked on the mock ups for the home page, course outline page and forum. I had to match these to Vin's design.

Things are starting to get hairy now as we hit "crunch time".

Here are the designs.

Homepage/Login

















Prospective Students / Restaurant bookings

















Forum

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss.

Things are really starting to heat up now with the project. Our team met up again to day with our designs to see which we preferred and the overwhelming response was the one Vinnie had done was best. Vinnie's design uses photography to create the website and is fantastic looking. Our group doesn't have the skill to create the website though we are going to make a mock up of the said design to show how it works.

Here is Vinnie's initial mock up.


















We've divided the work up between myself, Vinnie and Aleisha. I'm taking on three pages which include the home page (needs to tie in with Otago Polytechnics homepage), prospective student and course outline (also includes the restaurant reservations panel) and the forum. Hopefully I'll get those done tonight so Vinnie can get on with creating the presentation.

menus or younus?

SO, after our meeting and our move into creating a more metaphor based website around a cooker here is what I have developed so far.




















As you can see it more resembles a microwave than an oven, this does not change the cooking metaphor at all. The style I have gone for is a graphic one instead of photography based. I fell, however that a photo based one would envelope the user more into the world of the kitchen.

Tek Otago

Otago Polytechnic's website seems like a strange affair, between the main home page and the hospitality page there are a few similarities but not enough to make them coherent. With this in mind I figure that they should either look identical or each have their own identity. Here are their current looks as of the 14/10/07.

Tek Otago
















Hospitality




















I prefer the look of the Hospitality page over the Tek Home page. The Tek Otago home page seems to cluttered which is strange since they have a full page to play with but only use a small section in the centre. The Hospitality page is nice, simple and clean but theirs not a lot of depth to it so once you've seen it, you've seen it!

C.A.V.E.men meet!

Our group got together again today to talk about the direction we are going in. So far all our efforts have gone towards creating a more standard DVD/website interface. With today's meeting we all decided to move in a new direction and create a more metaphor based project.

Vinnie came up with the great idea to actually set the menu/site in the form of a stove. The idea is to have the heat dials as parts of the menu etc.

Looking around the net for a similar idea I found a website (www.ign.com) that reports on video game and movie news. When you choose a format, be it Playstation 2, Xbox 360, DVD or a myriad of other options it takes you to a subsection of the site. The interesting thing is that the top of the page they have designed it to resemble the format that it represents. Here are few screenshots to show what I mean.

PS2



















Xbox360



















DVD



















The cool thing about this is that it instantly creates a theme that lets the user know exactly where they are.

First Digital Drafts.

I've been having a little go at the DVD menus and mocked up a couple of simple jobbies. They are both basically the same just different colour schemes. I started with the black just to create the basic template and then coloured it using a bright orange (similar to the food websites that I have pointed out earlier).

Text is not currently present as I just wanted to see what it would look like. The pages are for the video menu selection on the DVD.

Road Map 2

Quick post just to throw sketches of the website and DVD plan. Both are designed to be superficially similar so the design can easily be adapted to either format.

Here ya go!