First of all, I want to thank everyone for their comments last week, and blog responses this week. And a special thanks to Maureen and Jeremy!

I think perhaps I confused quite a few people when I decided to show the “blues” and “reds” in my Wireframes. They were mainly for show (indicating user selection) and to remind me what I needed to do when I put this all together using CSS and HTML.  This includes the pop-up menus for the different grade levels; I removed them as well. For my revised website design, see cawebsitedesignrationale22

So I have removed the “blues” and “reds” and decided to use underlines to highlight user selections instead. Also, I moved the TeachArch logo (replaced the blue color with brown) down to the bottom of the homepage, and included navigation functions at the top, as per suggestions during last week’s presentations. Another “biggie” was to remove all of the lines from the navigation functions on the left side of the homepage that made it look too busy.

As a result of the revisions mentioned above, I also had to tweek the layouts for the show page and browse pages in order to maintain consistentcy. And I believe that by enlarging the Colonial Architecture in Virginia, 1607-1783 Header and background image (by adding an additional historical photo) creates more emphasis on the architecture and additional interest to the site.

Hopefully, with less colors and less lines, the website is overall more cohesive and visually-appealing.Any other comments are welcome!