Before I started writing down anything on paper, I first did a little research. By looking through a lot of technical service sites, I got a good feeling about what has been and what should not be done. Most of the technical sites hurt my eyes, because of their poor layout or lack of design. When it came to the design of this site, it was apparent to me that I would have to use concepts that are apparent in well-designed sites to breath new light into this technical field of web sites.
After finding several reference sites, I began to sketch elements that I liked from each of them and started to put them together to see if I like how they flowed together. Then by remembering what I've learned from previous classes on designing for the user, I tried to come up with a simple navigation system that would be easily used by the user. I think that my last 2 comps do the best job of that by utilizing a tab format to contain a lot of information into a well-organized format.
The overall theme I tried to portray into my design was the feel of technology, by making mechanical and circuit board type looking borders. I tried to keep it simple sticking with solid color vectors that could be saved as small file sized gifs. I then borrowed some pictures from Dell and used Photoshop to make them look like they came from Goode Technical Services Company.
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