Final homepage design

Now that I have outlined and designed all aspects of my website's layout and content, I have been able to create a final design for the site.

All the previously discussed elements have come together to form a design for the homepage of my site. This design can then be used as a template and applied to other pages on the site too. Some things on the site (such as the text, google search box, and social networking buttons) are just placeholders, but they give an idea of what the site will look like when finished.

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There are a couple of things that will need to be incorporated still, such as the gas safety mark, but these could be added in some way to the header, as I mentioned in my post about coding.

In order to see some more detailed analysis of the homepage - see my sketchbook.

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.