The Idea! My website will be...

After much deliberation, I've decided to go with the idea of creating a website for Mario's Plumbing. I think that this website will provide me with a variety of design opportunities and interesting ideas which I can implement in my final design.

This website will be aimed at customers of the business which are obviously those seeking plumbing will be the ones looking for the site - and because of this it needs to be designed appropriately and contain features which relate to the genre of 'handyman' websites - something which I will begin to look into.


Whilst this seems like a fairly professional idea to be using, in reality it is obviously not. As the site is for a fictional company - based on a video game character - this means I can run with the theme and make something less serious and more tongue-in-cheek. The colour scheme and logo will be based on the Mario universe (and are things that I will be blogging on soon in order to test out some ideas), and things like images and text will be based around the games too. This means I can use different characters and areas of the Mario games in order to build up the design. For example, Luigi could be holding a phone and advertising the phone number, or Princess Peach could be crying for help with a blocked drain.

Hopefully, over the next few days I will post up some rough logo and colour scheme ideas before I start to design the site's layout.