OUGD502 - Studio Brief 1 - The Growing Bones Collection - Website Design and Creation.

Having a small amount of web design and creation experience I didn't want to create an entirely new website from scratch myself as I wouldn't have time to even consider it with university work alongside it.

For this reason I decided to purchase a professional looking theme and then customise it to quite a big extent, this would allow me the original build of a website and freedom to change it to how I want, saving a lot of time from building it entirely from scratch.

I found this theme called Tiska, the reason I decided on this one was mostly the style of the menu than anything else, I liked how responsive it was and that was the main thing I was paying for. I have tried creating drop down menus before and none have turned out nearly as nice as this one.

After buying that, I began changing things around in the coding I was sent to suit my needs and wants.

After a few weeks of headaches and screams, I came out with a fully customised and responsive website with everything that I needed on there.

Homepage:

Social networking buttons in top right of container, responsive shopping cart description in top right, 'Shop Indie' campaign banner on left, logo, menu, slider, featured products of website, footer.

Homepage with drop down menu:

About page:

Social networking buttons in top right of container, responsive shopping cart description in top right, 'Shop Indie' campaign banner on left, logo, menu, photo, body copy, footer.

Artist page (unfinished until portrait photos are taken):

Social networking buttons in top right of container, responsive shopping cart description in top right, 'Shop Indie' campaign banner on left, logo, menu, grid layout of creatives featured on website, footer.

Artist page (unfinished until portrait photos are taken):

Social networking buttons in top right of container, responsive shopping cart description in top right, 'Shop Indie' campaign banner on left, logo, menu, name, portrait photo, information on creative, social links, featured work on site, footer.

Blog page:

Social networking buttons in top right of container, responsive shopping cart description in top right, 'Shop Indie' campaign banner on left, logo, menu, blog posts sourced from company tumblr with #thegrowingbonescollection tag.

Products page:

Social networking buttons in top right of container, responsive shopping cart description in top right, 'Shop Indie' campaign banner on left, logo, menu, products grid, footer.

Product page:

Social networking buttons in top right of container, responsive shopping cart description in top right, 'Shop Indie' campaign banner on left, logo, menu, name of product, photos of product, price, social interactions, information, link to artist, add to cart button, footer.

Contact page:

Social networking buttons in top right of container, responsive shopping cart description in top right, 'Shop Indie' campaign banner on left, logo, menu, body copy, contact form, spam check filter, footer.

With the website almost finished I began posting on the social networking pages to inform my previous audience of the change, and how my new project would be taking the rights of the pages and that I hope they are excited on what I move on to do. I received a lot of positive feedback that I'd moved onto a new project and not just left them which is good, rebranding took place after that.

Facebook:

Twitter:

Instagram:

Tumblr:

With a broad range of social media, the company will be able to update and connect with customers and a well built up audience clearly, almost constantly and prove a closer connection with everyone involved for publicity, connections and documentation.