New inspiration

http://gordoncressy.com/
http://www.paperboat.io/#case-1

One Page Love

Change of idea

So far I've struggled to find enough information to populate my website enough with specifically Mt.Everest information, but I have successfully found a lot of information about the mountain range it is included in. With this in mind I'm going to change my focal point to a more general subject; The Himalayas.

Content

http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/default/pres_at_alt
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-altitude-pressure-d_462.html

Plants and Animals:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_plants_grow_on_Mount_Everest
http://library.thinkquest.org/10131/nepal_park_everest.html

Ecology and Fold mountains:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain#Ecology

animals+plants detail:
http://edugreen.teri.res.in/explore/life/himalay.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/10131/javamenu_final.html

BBC Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Himalayan_marmot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/places/Himalayas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWtE4jT5c7o

Updated Choices | Typography and Colour

Final colour choices for my website can be seen above. In my post "feedback" I spoke about how my classmates had said that my greyscale colour palette could be an issue. I have been thinking quite carefully about what colour to add to my website and what elements to apply it to. I think that surf green has a feeling of freshness, purity and cleanliness. These are all words I think are associated with my websites style so far and I think this is why it will work. I think I will use it very sparingly, possibly on the navigation and any other buttons I choose to include on the site. I think this will allow it to have enough impact but not so much impact that it distracts from the rest of the site.



The colour palette for my iBook is greyscale + blue. The blue gradient will be used on button graphics to add a splash of colour to my design. Overall I think my iBook will be very colourful due to the large background images, and won't need extra colours adding to it.
Here are the two fonts I intend to use in my website, and example of how they could look once laid out. I was going to use Georgia but decided to swap it out for PMingLiU because I think it is far more legible at smaller sizes.

Below are screenshots of the fonts I intend on using for my iBook. I have changed the heading font to Chapparel Pro Light (1), and changed back to Georgia for my body text. This change of font will add a more contemporary feel to my iBook that I want. 

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Feedback | Pitch

I felt that my pitch went very well, the main comments that I had were about the monochrome colour scheme I've chosen.

My colour scheme doesn't include any colour whatsoever, I've chosen to keep it to shades of black and white. The idea behind this being that it is really clean and simple, something that can work well but my class mates somewhat disagreed with it. They thought it might look quite washed out which could be a huge problem and so they suggested I continue developing the colour scheme and insert 1 new colour. This would be for use on rollovers, or drop caps in the text. By doing this it would brighten up the whole website and give the user some vibrance.

The wireframes I had drawn up for the mobile were also an issue as the navigation would be completely unusable at that size, and so I need to reconsider how to get around this problem. A drop down menu would be easily usable on a mobile, as well as fitting in with my clean cut theme.