Orion Book DANDAD brief

Foil blocking & stretched out format = shelf appeal

My idea works because I have compressed key ideas and themes from each novel into a symbol which must be decoded. This coupled with the sleek black and white colour scheme, stretched out format and minimal use of foil blocking provides shelf appeal to a wide audience.

To Do - January 14th

Gra-Fix

Mock up navigation bar ideas - keep simple to leave room for group theme/logo/colour scheme. Structural ideas for website: flowchart

Create example of scrolling newsfeed

Create example of a gra-fix forum with various topics & interactive elements

Gather material for & mock up 2 'design advice' pages in Illustrator/InDesign

Build example of gallery? Research Flickr, look for ways users can upload examples

Design optional animated elements for website

Email ideas to group for clarification

grafix notes

Drop-down/popout menus in HTML - Layers. Menu present on every page on the left, does not change whilst browsing site- subheadings displayed for each section

Scrolling newsfeed on homepage - provides movement, saves space. flash component with link to alternative HTML version (opening in new window) Can make this link to an easily editable text file rather than going through flash - easily update news

How can users upload images to a gallery automatically?
Grafix logo acts as 'home' button
Forum - image uploading here?
Gallery - start with images by the group. Flickr?
Use Flickr?
Link to users' Flickr accounts & display examples
Flickr group?

Redesign site competition - submit mock-up or zipped folder with HTML (email)

black&white - can't go wrong, classic, contrasting, attractive

Use headline tags for each page - particularly the homepage - make sure we're searchable in google! Ensure all pages have titles in the browser bar.

Have plenty of webspace at www.sarahaccident.com. Can link for free through http://grafix.cjb.net or purchase a .com or .co.uk domain for about a tenner

Anchor tags link to other components