Home page design version 3

After talking with Ashley, I came up with a modification to the site design, mostly having to do with the logo. I found a font that is very close to the Hansen's logo on their tee-shirts and am now going to be using that. I'm debating if I want the navigation menus in the same font.

Version 3.1

Archives

I'm looking into archives in which we can donate a large portion of the memorabilia that has been collected at Hansen's Sno-Bliz over its 70 years of business. I've narrowed it down to two places: the Special Collections at Tulane Libraryand the Historic New Orleans Collection. From what I can tell, both collections are interested in New Orleans Cuisine and I don't think you can get much more New Orleans than Hansen's. The next step is to contact the curators and see which one is more interested.

Home page designs

I've been working on the home page design. I have a basic concept, but am trying to refine the details. Here are the different versions I have so far. I'm partial to version 2, although none of the permutations of it are completely satisfying to me. All images open to larger versions in a new tab/window.

Version 1.5a (large title and menu, delineations of space with straight black lines):


Version 1.5b (large title and menu, delineations of space with black lines, menus in a box):


Version 2.1 (small title and menu, delineations of space with straight black lines):


Version 2.2 (small title and menu, delineations of space with straight grey lines):


Version 2.3 (small title and menu, delineations of space with straight grey lines, lines are slightly thicker with a bit of shape to them):

I also thought about lining up the images in the side menus, but I'm not sure about it.

First Post

This blog was created as part of a Capstone experience for the School of Information at the University of Texas Austin. The goal of the Capstone is two fold: 1. Create a website for Hansen's Sno-Bliz and 2. Create a prototype of an online archive of Hansen's Sno-Bliz memorabilia. The second part of this project is going to be the more extensive and difficult part, but hopefully the end will be rewarding.

I am going to be using this space to hash out ideas and give updates about the project. Hopefully, it will one day also be used to provide news about goings on at Hansen's, links to news articles about the business, interesting addtions to the archive, and the like.