Technology Choice: Website Design

For my Chosen integration of technology I have chosen to use the design of a website to represent my final design. The reason for this choice is due to previous experience creating websites, although the experience is minimal so more research into ways of creating a good website will need to be employed. For my website I want to design a minimalist website in an effort to accentuate the design as best as possible. Minimalism in web design revolves the around core concept of stripping down a design to its bare essentials. Often structurally and aesthetically simple as possible, minimalistic design shines in its ability to deliver information to its readers as quickly, and efficiently as possible through the removal of irrelevant visual distractions whilst employing relevant visual media throughout the webpage. The principles of minimalist web design are key to understanding a good minimal website; these include the need to neglect all needless features including designs, content and functions, the removal of all elements until the design is running on bare essentials, minimal use of colour and effective use of white spaces throughout the website. Other features common to all good minimalistic websites include good choice of typography, strong and clear gridlines, effective implementation of contrast and again a key emphasis on the use of white space. This design format is very common throughout portfolio websites due to its ability to highlight features of a website which in their case is the work of the websites owner.

Clear Example of Minimalist design in websites: http://www.philgallagher.com/templates/pgl/page/page_html_standard.php?secID=1

Other Pictures of Examples:

Above is an example of a colour template.

Above is an example of another minimalist website.

Above is my final example of a minimalist website.