JaceTheAce
11-27-2006, 08:16 PM
I am in charge of redesigning my employer's website and have sort of come to a standstill in its design. Our company wants a clean and uncluttered design that will also allow us to implement the web-based database into the layout with ease. Both our clients, appraisers, and employees use separately-accessed secured databases by logging in.
Clients use the database for ordering and managing appraisals, including facilitating customer service inquieries. Appraisers and real estate agents log-in to manage their open appraisal and BPO orders, including submitting their completed orders. We (employees) use the website for tracking and managing orders from a customer service standpoint, in addition to our accounting, invoicing, CRM, and other important things. Our database is already in use on the current website and I will be working with the developer in ensuring it's successful implementation with the new design.
Now, I came up with the idea to keep the general layout clean by using more white space than usual. I wanted to avoid the typical darker left and right sidebars with the main body of the website being centered; this is what seems to be on most current corporate websites. But, this can change and I may end up having to add a left and right darker side border in order to help lead the viewer's eye to focus on the main content of the website.
CLICK HERE (http://www.jasonevart.com/avisample/sample.jpg) for the design that I have been working on. Please keep in mind that it's very preliminary and several items on it are being worked on. The preview is an entire JPG since I didn't want to bother uploading all the images and change every image tag in the HTML code. The body of the website probably won't be centered on your screen because of varying screen resolutions, but just keep in mind that the top fading bar extends from the left to the right of the screen when viewed as an HTML doc...and that the core of the website is always centered.
Items that I will be improving:
The top menu's text is a bit distorted. I used Illustrator then converted each to a transparent GIF - I think the anti-aliasing degraded during the image size reduction along the way.
Client login area is messed up for some reason. I need to go back and tweak the code. The final design won't include such a bland client login. Do any of you have a suggestion on how I should start with this?
The top menu buttons will have some sort of mouse-over effect.
The actual core of the site will have a sub-menu as a column on the left side of the body. This will appear after users click on the top menu items or login to the database.
Please offer any suggestions as to how I can improve my current design. Thanks everyone for your help... it's greatly appreciated!
Clients use the database for ordering and managing appraisals, including facilitating customer service inquieries. Appraisers and real estate agents log-in to manage their open appraisal and BPO orders, including submitting their completed orders. We (employees) use the website for tracking and managing orders from a customer service standpoint, in addition to our accounting, invoicing, CRM, and other important things. Our database is already in use on the current website and I will be working with the developer in ensuring it's successful implementation with the new design.
Now, I came up with the idea to keep the general layout clean by using more white space than usual. I wanted to avoid the typical darker left and right sidebars with the main body of the website being centered; this is what seems to be on most current corporate websites. But, this can change and I may end up having to add a left and right darker side border in order to help lead the viewer's eye to focus on the main content of the website.
CLICK HERE (http://www.jasonevart.com/avisample/sample.jpg) for the design that I have been working on. Please keep in mind that it's very preliminary and several items on it are being worked on. The preview is an entire JPG since I didn't want to bother uploading all the images and change every image tag in the HTML code. The body of the website probably won't be centered on your screen because of varying screen resolutions, but just keep in mind that the top fading bar extends from the left to the right of the screen when viewed as an HTML doc...and that the core of the website is always centered.
Items that I will be improving:
The top menu's text is a bit distorted. I used Illustrator then converted each to a transparent GIF - I think the anti-aliasing degraded during the image size reduction along the way.
Client login area is messed up for some reason. I need to go back and tweak the code. The final design won't include such a bland client login. Do any of you have a suggestion on how I should start with this?
The top menu buttons will have some sort of mouse-over effect.
The actual core of the site will have a sub-menu as a column on the left side of the body. This will appear after users click on the top menu items or login to the database.
Please offer any suggestions as to how I can improve my current design. Thanks everyone for your help... it's greatly appreciated!