Design Honeysuckle Studios

What my personal mission is too, design a much simpler and soft look to my portfolio. Right now if you visit www.honeysucklestudios.com it is ok, but is not ok.... I am not sure how to put into words. If you view it, ignore the grammer and spelling. I do have an editor that is going to help me with my new design.

Hi Fi

Not sure if this will be my final mockup. I am not liking the portfolio idea, but I do like the Sample/idea 1 better.

Sample 1

Sample 2

 Portfolio/Gallary

Sketches

 Home Idea 1

 gallarey

 Home idea 2

Lo fi version

 Home Sample 1

Home sample 2

Gallarey Idea

Creative Brief

Honeysuckle Studios Freelance Graphic Web Design - Creative Brief

　

Target Audiences

1. New Businesses Owner, who is just starting out
2. Current Business Owner Looking for a new look

Objectives:

1. New / Old Business on a tight budget
2. Doing own business taxes
3. Lawyer suites
4. Manage my own business budget
5. business management for others

Obstacles:

1. Working with low budget or no money
2. Traveling to meetings
3. Creative a package deals for new businesses at different levels
4. Selected own hours
5. Check Business email

Key Benefit:

1. Setting my own hours
2. Working for myself
3. Work at home
4. Helping businesses to get a start
5. Cost is the number one key

Support Statement

1. Be able to provide good and quality customer service
2. Create custom graphic design to fit their personal business
3. Design at a reasonable cost

3 inspiring/influential portfolio websites

1. http://www.colorsmith.com
   this is my mentor Rob Carlos's website. He has been a big influential in my create life. 
2. www.duirwaigh.com/
   Here is another one that I love very much. Their Knock on the Door is a great story I enjoy to watch. I even have the book on my alter.
3. http://crescentmoongifts.com/
   This is my girlfriend's Website about her store she runs on 6th av in Tacoma, She has been in business for about 7 years now. 

Week 1 Reading Response- FINALLY

Week 1 READ:

Intro, Chapter 1 and 2

     basically what I understand, its teaching us younger designers to create sample designs. Its not "rocket surgery" has Steve Krug's to build a site or is there is a wrong way in building one too. Most people are not able to afford to hire web consultants, they look for someone that will fit their budget. There is alot of web designers that don't have no commens since to build it simple. My opinnion most of the time it is the client.

Do not bad mounth poorly design sites, because you can learn what "not" do with a poorly design. Most of these book is about e-commerce site, but with this tools you can use for any kind of a site.

Chapter 1:
     Is not make me think to hard about what I am looking for onto a site. Which I agree with this chapter, if I am looking for something, I want to go straight to the "link" and not search for it. I notice the logo, look for the menu choises, and images and such. Also I look at the site if it is easy to look at and not OMG!! get me off of this site now! So chapter 1, is something I already do. I was going to show you the first site I saw that I went OMG! too.. http://freighthousesquare.com/index.html but it looks like someone finally got around in made it better.

Chapter 2:
     Not everyone views a website differently, in order to design a web page are three facts to you. We don't read pages, we scan them. We are always in a hurry, and most don't read a site at all. We look for key words and if we don't find it, we look else where. We know we don't have to read everything too, and then lastly we are good a scanning. We can newspapers, magazine and other things helps us figure out if we are interested in reading more of it.

Week 2 - Mood Board and Style Sheet

Style Sheet

I got Mood Broad and Style Sheet mixed up. This is why my Mood board is not up here at all.

Mood Boards