Hi everyone,
It's been a while since I've posted up a link to my one of my works. Today, I want to share a website for a nonprofit organization that helps fund and manage educational programs relating to Hawaiian culture.
Splash page
Before you flame me, please know that the splash page was not my idea. My clients call it a "landing page," but I call it a splash page. If you've been around websites for as long as I have (~ year 2000), you'll remember that back in the day, if you were to go to someone's site, you'd usually end up on a page that welcomed you to their website. There'd be an animation, or a big graphic, and a button that says "click here to enter website." No one does that anymore, but my client insisted. So, we have a splash page. LOL.
The design
You know what? Part of the joy of redesigns is taking my structure and applying it to messy websites. The old version of this website was quite a mess (see the old version). Furthermore, the colors used were brown, tan, and orange... and it resembled a big poop. I took a nonprofit theme and used it as a framework because it had an event calendar. You guys can't see it, but I also spent a lot of time adding admin functionality that my client can use. Custom sidebars, custom slideshow, custom backgrounds... you might think it's too much, but consider this: prior to this website, they had NO CONTROL over anything.
Color scheme
The organization is already branded as a orange-brown-yellow-earthy color scheme, so I did not want to deviate from that. I just did the best I could with a color palette that I find to be one of the most difficult to work with. My first draft and the final had a big difference in color scheme. I started out with brown and yellow (yikes). Then I gravitated to earthy colors. Then I settle on using brown with orange accents (orange is brown with high brightness btw). Overall, I'm glad that I stayed consistent with their color branding, despite how hard it was.
Anyway, please let me know what you think. My websites are more or less boring and structure the same way (I have a hard time being creative and deviating from what I normally find effective), but I always appreciate feedback. And I always want to keep these review threads going.