Illinois WINGS (Work In Progress)
by jim.mayes - June 24th, 2006 (add comment)Illinois WINGS is an Illinois breast cancer treatment non-profit the company I work for has been hosting for years. The original design may have sufficed for its time but it is definitely showing its age now and could use an updated look.
The original design sports some fairly dark colors probably influenced by the dark red/burgandy of the WINGS logo. The logo of course, needs to stay pretty much as is, but I’m going to apply some subtile color tweaks to give it some life. I’ll go with a much lighter color pallet and beef up the whitespace to lighten things up as well. Bring in some friendlier fonts. And add some photography to the site banner to warm up and focus the tone of the site on the women that Illinois WINGS serves. I think the result is a much more inviting and comfortable site which better speaks to the orginazation’s mission.
Besides the dated design, the site is also plagued by non-working functions. The HTML is of course old school tag soup tables. As an extra added bonus, tons of mso styles (most likely FrontPage artifacts) are sprinkled throughout amounting to a pretty good mess.So all of the code will be thrown out and newly developed from the ground up with leaner xhtml/css.
At this point the design is complete, the master html page template and the css layout are complete and about 80% of the page content has been populated. The build out process should be finished in the next couple of days and the new site should be live by week’s end.