As school’s finished and i’ve got nothing better to do at the moment, i thought i’d take on the ‘fun’ task of a new design for our school intranet. To start, here’s a look at what we see at the moment:

Without being cruel, it’s obvious that design wasn’t high up on the list of things to do. Firefly (our CMS) is functional, but its sheer greyness makes me want to bang my head against a wall. And don’t get me started on the fact that some of the teachers who are responsible for updating these pages don’t quite grasp web design (example).

So i’ve made a start on my own design. I don’t claim to be more qualified than anybody when it comes to this, it’s just a hobby. And i haven’t taken coding into this at all yet - no doubt it would be impossible, but i’ve had fun doing it.

A few notes:

• The blue gradient would ideally drop behind the main (staff-editable) page a little more
• The page editor can, in theory, create as many links and sub-links as they like - obviously it’s not possible to keep on creating rows at the top of the page for each set of links, to eventually take up the whole screen
• The smallest resolution monitor we have at school is 1024x768, so i guess it has to work at that resolution
• Visual cues (the top bar, with sub-links underneath) borrowed from digg.com

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By adam2z on 12 August 2007 at 0:29:

i wish your light grey caveat was true :(

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I posted this on Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 13:36, under Education.