GRC 175 Learning and Discussion Forum

Here are my very simple designs I honestly like the white background more, but let me know what you all think

The 2nd layout is very nice, the color, the image banner. Nice touch, although you are missing the TMCC Logo... or am I blind?

The layout is very nice but the concept is lost to me. If this is the GRC website why is there plants? Looks more like a plant nursery website. Maybe play around with imagery.

Heyyy like the second design better! The white background matches better with green imho. Would be nice if there were more photographs that shows students or the campus or something that would speak "college program"! Good start!

Hm.

I don't really care for the first design. Two difficult to read and the light colored drop shadow softens the edges too much. I also can't read the title. Ditch it.

The second design is much better. It's a clean layout with a bit of contrast. It's easy to read and use. The layout makes a good frame for informational presentation. The large photo space up at the top invites sharp, colorful, photos to express the Graphic Design program.

Unfortunately, the website you've designed does not sell a Graphic Design program. It seems to sell a winery or herbal supplement company. This is easily fixed however. What you need to do is swap the green for colors that speak to a design program like black and white for contrast and CMYK or RGB as your accent colors. Also, you need to find a picture that Illustrates either design or the Graphic Communications program. A grapevine does neither. Lastly, swap the font for something more modern. Perhaps Eurostyle Bold for the navigation and titles and a Helvetica or Myriad for the bodycopy. The curly cue vine type for your navigation ain't exactly screaming design.

Here's some good examples of websites that sell design:

http://wedesignstudios.com/

http://dexterdesignhouse.com/

http://thedeependdesign.com/

http://registeredink.com/

http://www.smallpondstudio.com/

http://www.design7studio.com/

I think the layout can work, but you'll need to rework it quite a bit to sell Graphic Design. Keep trying!

I do like the second design because it reli pops the website more than the first. May I suggest maybe using different imagery to promote more of GRC. I do like your boxes and maybe tweak the color a bit more. =)

I like the second design better. The white and green look really nice together. And it looks easy to navigate so that's good. My suggestion would be to maybe change the header image to an image of TMCC just to make it more clear of what kind of website it is.

No.2. - Better contrast. Easy to read.

Concept 1 is looking good, better contrast. Good job

the white looks better with you image, but it has some contrast issues... I really like it though!