To demonstrate my abilities in web design - specifically with respect to functinality, color scheme, font use, and information architecture - I have designed a mock website, "Designing D.C.: Urban Planning in the Nation's Capital from Ratification to Gentrification." Since this site is for design demonstration purposes only, I have copied and pasted content directly from Wikipedia. I claim no original authorship.
This mock website can be accessed here: http://www.christianjames.us/design/design.html
Design Notes
Screenshot of Web Design Sample; Click to OpenI began designing the site by thinking about its content. I am currently designing a website on the urban renewal of Southwest Washington, D.C. in the 1950s and 1960s, and thought to design this mock site around urban planning throughout the city's history.
I then proceeded to create a banner featuring three images: portraits of two of Washington's most famous planners, Benjamin Banneker and Charles Pierre L'Enfant, with a clip of James McMillan's plan for the city's downtown area in the middle. After eyedropping the image of the McMillan Plan, I created a color scheme from Color Scheme Generator 3.
Since my mock site covers a wide swath of time, I chose horizontal navigation to evoke a timeline. I found inspiration and technical support from Listamatic and Tanfa.
I chose two different font families, a header family (featuring Monotype Corsiva", Book Antiqua, Palatino Linotype, or Palatino) to evoke Washington's origins, and another (featuring Monotype, Courier New, Arial, System, or Terminal) to mimic the modern typed memos of government memos.