Victor+King+-+HTML+&+CSS

Victor King

 * Rebuild**


 * Redesign**

Overall, I felt that the original design was a good one and not much really needed changing. The original site had distinct sections that were well separated. Although the picture slideshow was unnecessary, I liked it because it added some beauty to the page, which otherwise tended to emphasize functionality over aesthetics, without sacrificing aesthetics completely. This is arguably what it should do as the CMNS homepage.

I changed two things with my redesign. First, I added bullet points to the list of hot topics, in order to further differentiate them. The color shade difference between items on the list was not an ideal way to separate them, as it is hard to see at first. It's probable that experimenting with colors would be a good idea in addition to/instead of using bullets points, but I didn't explore that route due to my limited understanding of color. The second thing I changed was the look of the two "Archive" links below the hot topics list. I felt that these links didn't stand out enough in the original design, and could be easy to miss. They also weren't different enough from the text of the list elements.