GRC 175 Learning and Discussion Forum

For this Project I'm doing http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefac ... tiger.html

For the first one I decided to so the playful but simple for kids For The second one I went to play with the colors and with a little bit more softer look

Your homepage ideas are nice and really capture that kid-friendly website. I think the blue layout works best in terms of the navigation, but I would like to see a image similar to the one from the rainbow layout (guy holding beaker instead of mesmerized guy with cat). Your inner pages feel a bit disconnected from the home pages, as in the style completely changes. Try to unify them by bringing in the same typefaces and colors. Also, check some of your spelling.

See good things in both layouts that could be combined. Try to unify your style more, you have that kid friendly feel. I like the illustration of the child- think it reflects well on your site but also the illustration of the tiger is pretty cute too. Good choice of typeface. Think that since this site is directed at kids make it as simple as possible while giving it a lot of colors that capture their attention. Make it fun and motion filled.

Hm. I think I like the softer look of your design two. I think it's the soft blue. It calms all the other design elements while tying everything together. Your purple in the homepage navigation is working well with the blue, as is your royal headline. The whole layout generally has good margins too, which allows everything room to breathe. I also like your typographic choices. The marker font is working well, in particular. It creates a feeling of whimsy without sacrificing much in the way of legibility or readability. Your homepage navigation is large and easy to find and use. I like your little cartoon characters, they contribute to the fun and that baby tiger is hilarious.

I'd try to keep the buttons similar looking on both the home page and inner pages. I don't think it's bad that you moved them into a horizontal line, but I'd recommend either making the internal page buttons purple squares or make your homepage buttons ovals. Also, the green on the buttons on your inner page doesn't work with your blue, try a purple or orange. Use the same font and color on your headline in both your home and inner pages.

Good effort!

Gosh, your graphic design use in your character construction is wonderful! I know how much time and effort it takes to create those graphics so great job.

I also like your second layout. I like the color gradation use in your buttons and of course the images choices. I would recommend to choose a different color background for the buttons in the additional web page layout. The green kinda gets lost in the light blue. Overall it's definitely coming along!

These are both good ideas for a kid site, the only thing is that the inner pages don't feel like they belong to the homepages. The second homepage has a good unified feel to it, for the inner one maybe stick to the purple you used in the homepage instead of the green and also use a similar font so it looks more unified.

The first design with the rainbow colors is interesting and fun. The rainbow colors are great to keep visual interest of kids and the science guy is neat. Try incorporating the colors of the science guy home page with the tiger page to unify the two designs.

Overview: For your Home page I like the first home page better than the second one it stands out more, i think it will be alot easier for kids to navigate, as for your body page I say go with the first one aswell it keeps the nav clean for them to, and one section wear all the imformation they need to read is there and easy to find.

Improvements: Change the color for the quizes button, as white text on yellow is extremely hard to read, for your body page maybe change the box for the text.

Zera-Chann,
I think you can go with either one; they are both fun and colorful. The one thing to include is adding a texture to your background because it is really flat.


Jose Macias.

Both are good designs, They use imagery and color that scream kid friendly. The layouts are extremely simplified which is great since kids can't usually navigate anything too complex. I feel like you really want to cut down though on body copy though. Children aren't going to want to read a paragraph of text. Maybe use images the show the fun lessons and topics that they will learn.