I used http://www.somaligov.net as my bad website (and who knew the Somali Government had a website?!)
I took a lot of inspiration from other government websites. Most of them have really clean and point focused designs, so that's what I decided to go with.
In the First Design, I liked that grey color in the original design (top image), so I decided to keep it within the design and use some transparent Black accents, and White text. I think by using those muted colors it really helped bring out the colors in the emblem and the picture.
In the Second Design, I decided to actually use one of the browns from the sand in the image and incorporate that as the header/footer rather than the original grey. Instead, I used Black & White accents, especially with the text.
Depending on the information, there will most likely not be as much text in certain areas. I know it looks like a lot right now, but that is all mostly filler text in the mean time.
Excited to hear everyone's thoughts on this!
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