Below is a page I made of a few favorite websites of mine that have elements I'd like to incorporate in my own website (not my sketchblog).
On the top is Masters of Chicken Scratch, Dwayne Vance's blog. On the bottom from left to right are Chip Foose's Foose Design website, Mike Hill's Heavy Unit Design blog, and Kekai Kotaki's Kekai Art website.
Below I have listed a few design elements I might like to include in my own website....
- Central logo at the top of the page instead of header with long strand of text
- Sketch feed on the right side of page
- Simple navigation. Example: "Gallery," "About," "Blog" at top of page. Selecting three or four links would keep navigation easy. "About" could be updated with news and resume information, "Gallery" could have multiple galleries such as personal work, school work, etc. My sketchblog could be easily found by having the "Blog" button at the top by the logo with the rest of the navigation buttons. These buttons could even be incorporated in an illustrative manner. It might be a nice stylistic choice to use icons instead of type for navigation, which could also possibly clean up the design and make it more interesting.
- A simple texture could be interesting in the background. My personal work style tends to involve extra textures and is a little more relaxed, so it could be interesting to blend that into a more professional website design.
- Chip Foose's site has a central image with smaller ones below. I like the idea of possibly having whatever the latest and greatest is at the top with images below to direct to the galleries and other pages. Another website I like that has a similar format is Concept Art World. This website shows the newest gallery at the top with other news and galleries shown below in images. It's a nice way of showing the website is always evolving. Although I might not necessarily do this, I think it has some inspirational qualities about it that I'd like to investigate.
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