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Subject: Re: Balance


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Sandie
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Date Posted: 11:14:33 02/09/02 Sat
In reply to: Damian 's message, "Balance" on 14:29:59 02/03/02 Sun

Balance - Web Pages

http://www.nissandriven.com/

The vehicles on Nissan's home page (changes with each click of the mouse) are the main focal point. The vehicles are predominately placed just below the navigational features of their website. The bulk of the design was created with a Crystallographic Balance. You can notice the grid like design embedded in the design of the car. The car image sits mainly on the left hand side of the page, car names are listed just to the right of the centerline and as you scroll over each of the cars, an image of that car pops up to the right. As you navigate through their site, a similar type of grid design was used.

Other features were used throughout their site, giving a sense of unity to each and every page. They have a symmetrical logo placed in the upper left hand side on every page of their site. This is the same logo that appears on all of their automobiles. The navigational bar also appears on each page within the site. The design is consistent throughout the site with relation to the shaded background of each item in the navigational bar and the text appearance.

I also noticed that they designed their site using the browser safe guidelines.

http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~wsdweb/

Our district website homepage is symmetrical in design. Our district logo is in the upper left hand corner, balanced by the district address and phone number in the upper right hand corner. Both images encompass approximately the same amount of space.

The main attraction of our page is divided into 3 columns with a light gray column in the center offsetting the two darker gray columns on either side. The teal-green column heading outlines the 3 sources of information: Schools, Community and Administration. Each category is bulleted with the same diamond that appears to have the same color of the heading and background. The text and color is consistent throughout the page.

Unfortunately, one major flaw of our district web site, according to Good Page, Bad Page is in the design of the site as it is not consistent from one page to the next, even in following just the administration links (which is created by the same source). Understandably, each of our 7 schools would have a very different look and feel on the web as they do "in person".

http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/main/index.jsp

The WB logo is symmetrical in design. The Welcome to Warner Bros. is asymmetrical. Welcome to is in lower case orange lettering, and Warner bros. is also in gray lower case but in a much larger font. Their main focal point is located on the left hand side of the page, just under their logo. They are promoting a "live concert" in which the animations totally catch your eye.

The main attractions, Looney Toons, Harry Potter, Who's Line is it Anyway and The Fun Hog also have their own billing at the bottom right hand corner just in case you didn't feel like scrolling over their navigational bar to find the most popular hits.

The navigational bar directs you to each of their subdivisions. One thing I noticed is that each page has a slightly different looking logo with some having a different placement as well. There is unity on each page, you know you are on a WB product each definitely has plenty of variety from one to the next.

While there isn't too much scrolling needed top to bottom, one may have to scroll to the right depending on their screen size.

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