Website Development: Visual Style

Now that I've created my brand identity, have my colour scheme and typography for my website it's time to move on to creating my website. Reflecting on my research, people created a simplistic website with minimal pages and minimal information, this works well for portfolios because you want to showcase your work to an audience in a easy way, that has good UX principles.

Finding information easily is key when it comes to portfolio websites, so l wanted to create designs that have about three pages and are easy to navigate around. To help me design my website l decided to create a feature list of everything l needed to have on my website. Creating feature lists is common practise when designing a website so that you can ensure you have appropriate features for the type of website and they are coherent throughout the site.

Feature List

List of features to go on my website pages:

Homepage

·      Navigation Bar

·      Links to other pages

·      Logo

·      Text

·      Headers

·      Images

·      Videos

·      Footer information

·      Social media logos

·      Image Slider

Portfolio Page

·      Navigation Bar

·      Links to other pages

·      Logo

·      Text

·      Headers

·      Images

·      Videos

·      Footer information

·      Social media handles/logos

·      Scroll function

·      Image slider

·      ‘Gallery’ Wall

·      Images expand when opened to show more context

About Me

·      Navigation Bar

·      Links to other pages

·      Logo

·      Text

·      Header

·      Images

·      Footer information

·      Scroll function

·      Download icon

·      Downloadable document

Contact

·      Navigation Bar

·      Links to other pages

·      Logo

·      Text

·      Header

·      Images

·      Footer information

·      Scroll function

·      Information box

These are the basic features l want to have on my website, but as l come to the design process some of these will change depending on the type of design l go for.