Pro TKD / Main Page - Version 1

This is a mockup for a website I’m working on for Pro TKD here in Gainesville. This design felt a little too tough for me. After speaking with the client I learned that his target are parents looking to get their children into martial arts programs. I am working on a redesign right now to more effectively communicate with the target. This mockup is a cool snapshot of my initial view of what the client needed.
Gainesville Pet Rescue - Version 1

So this is a site I designed for my internship at 352Media. The prompt was to design a website for a nonprofit organization within a range of genres. I chose pet rescue as my imaginary client and got to work. This site, if selected, will be sliced down and coded and then given away for free to local non-profit sites as part of a community outreach that 352Media does, which can be found at designyour.org. Very cool stuff.
Allied MMA / Main Page - Version 2

Not a lot of revisions here, just some usability fixes. All links and live content are the same orange hue to communicate that they are interactive content.
So this is the first project I was given at my internship with 352 Media Group.

Here’s the prompt I received from my Track Director.

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First Assignment
So what are we designing? Let’s start off our first project by designing a website from an offline inspiration. Meaning, anything offline that inspires you….a texture, a magazine cover, a book, a rock. Use something about that thing in your design.
Examples from last semester:
·         A grammar book that a journalism major liked. She created a website called gossip grammar. Some elements from the book cover were used in the design.
·         Another student was inspired by a band and decided to design a website about them. She used colors that were representative of the band, photography that was provided by the band…etc.
·         The door is open for creativity. Include photos from http://sxc.hu or istockphoto.com or even take your own.
Think about features that would be included in your site based off of features that are provided from the http://demo.352media.com site we looked at earlier.
Will there be a rotating slideshow area? What content should go in there? How will that content help your subject? What is the user supposed to do with that area? What do you even want the viewer to do when they land on the page?
What other features do you want to include? Ecommerce? Do they need a shopping cart? News & press? Events? You name it, you pick it. Keep in mind that we’ll want to critique these on Friday. So don’t get too far over your head with features.
I’d like to see a homepage design, and a simple page design.

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I went with an MMA social networking site based around finding training partners. I present for critique tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed =o)
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Arbor Care Tree Service

This is a mockup of a website I designed for a new lawn care company here in Gainesville. 

Client: Arbor Care Tree Service

Need: Logo, Website 

Problem: Client is a new company entering an industry of long-standing competitors with longstanding track records of good work. Client is not as well known as its competitors.

Solution: Build a one page website with photos of the client’s latest work and allow past customers to submit their testimonials as to how good the service was that they received. 

Features: The website would have numerous “before-and-after” photos that the user would be able to scroll through. Testimonials would cycle weekly giving users a view of how many satisfied customers that the client had.
A Veteran’s Hope - Version 1

This is another charity website template I designed for 352Media for their designyour.org website. My main critique on my last site, the pet rescue, was that it was simply too dense with features for a free website. The pet rescue website was not something they would want to give away for free in other words. So with this site I decided to go lighter on the content side and focus more on arrangement. I used some fairly subtle techniques to divide my subsections within the content section as well as the right column. I have some great revision ideas so version 1.1 will be a step up
Allied MMA / Members Page - Version 1