Gaining inspiration from the wii fit site I tried bringing a student to the front of the page. I feel now that looking back at the other designs I lacked images, which is something that I really try to focus on because it makes site more appealing and gives the user a small idea about what the who the dance academy could appeal too.
I have changed the text to a standard more easy to read font giving the site a more professional look. I am still a bit unsure if there is a bit too much red in this site but I will experiment with this as well. I have also minimised the navigation tab. Rather then having all of the navigation across one bar I suggested having drop down links making it look easier to navigate through, what I have noticed when looking through dance websites the main points that users are looking for are: who is the academy?, when classes are run and how to contact the club. These are the links that I have kept.
Having gained inspiration from the body shop site I managed to tone down the red by adding a gradient background. I included all of the navigation buttons on this design because I wanted Jess to have a choice of design options. However as you can see at the bottom I have created alternative links that sends the users to the main pages. I am unsure as to whether this will confuse the user but it seems to be successful in other sites.
As this design is an example of the home page the main bulk of information would be placed into box where the logo is currently placed.
I have sent these to Jess and she agreed with me that these designs are better then the previous how she would like the logo to stand out more so I shall work on both designs, created all the pages for each to give Jess a stronger idea and work on some designs to make the logo stand out from the rest of the designs.
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Well if I do say so myself, I think these have come on a lot, the second one in particular wouldn't look a miss out there on the web.
Only suggestion would be to have the links in the bottom four boxes in the same position, and I think for those pictures that would make it at the bottom?
Either way, were you to add that gradient background to the large student photo design, they could both be used, one as the front page, the other as the inner?!
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