Recently Uniq Sites was asked to redesign the home page for the newly formed Shoal River Middle School of Crestview, Florida.
The new design was intended to be similar to the current design as well as easy to update for their web designer.
Here is the original design:
Here is the original logo:
In order to create this new design I had to first create a customized version of the logo. The new design would require that you see through The mustang and lettering was traced from the original logo they provided me.
To keep the similarity of the current design I continued with the same basic layout for the website – a three column layout with a header. I also kept the blue/red color scheme but added a lighter blue color to better highlight the main navigation.
To update the website I moved the navigation to beneath the header (identified by the lighter blue color), added a scrolling image/headline area and important links to the left column. I kept the center of the page for the most important information and used colored headers to better highlight each topic. I also moved the secondary phone numbers from the header to a footer.
Here is the new design:
What do you think? Is this a better design? Is it easier to use?